It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. While legend declares that this accelerated fervor resulted from divine ...

George Frideric Handel’s father was a barber and valet to the Prince of Saxe-Magdeburg. He was in his mid-sixties when his son was born and he hated music. Somehow young Handel managed to learn the ...

Handel wrote Zadok the Priest for the coronation of King George II in 1727. Amazingly the piece has been performed at the coronation service of every British monarch ever since. The words are ...

Every year about this time, Twin Cities classical music lovers — and, in particular, those who make a holiday tradition of experiencing George Frideric Handel’s 1742 oratorio “Messiah ...

Two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins is attached to star as baroque composer George Frideric Handel in a new feature titled The King of Covent Garden. Embankment Films has launched global ...

The Chorale, in collaboration with the Lubbock Christian University choirs, will perform George Frideric Handel’s Messiah – one of the most revered masterpieces in history, often performed and ...

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Story goes, George Frideric Handel finished “Messiah,” a 260-page oratorio, in a mere 24 days, foregoing sleep and food for the most part, in 1741. It’s that whirlwind of inspiration that ...

The composer George Frideric Handel wrote this letter to his friend and librettist Charles Jennens on 19th July 1744. It was written about a year after the London premiere of Handel's great ...

to Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock), and Adolf Hitler (1981 TV movie The Bunker), is set to play composer George Frideric Handel in the upcoming feature The King of Covent Garden. Minamata filmmaker ...