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 ...

David Snead, who for nearly a decade has served as president and chief executive of the Handel and Haydn Society, announced ...

The name for chamber music comes from music being performed in private chambers or at home. Symphony Orchestra violinist ...

Our critically acclaimed student Choral Society and conductor, John Forsyth MBE, will bring a programme of energetic Baroque music to audiences in Newcastle Cathedral for the first time.

Humble and hurried beginnings. Philip Bayles was the conductor of the Eugene Community Orchestra in 1974 when suddenly, out ...

Gareth Malone 275 years after a ground-breaking charity concert saw George Frideric Handel perform his Messiah for the benefit of London’s foundlings, Gareth Malone is set to stage his own perfo ...

They include: Advertisement -- Pope Paul II in 1417 -- Writer Samuel Pepys in 1633 -- Musician George Frideric Handel in 1685 -- Banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild in 1744 -- Writer/philosopher W.E.B ...

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George Frideric Handel was one of the greatest composers of the Baroque period. Opera dominated Handel’s career, yet he was better known for his oratorios and instrumental works for several ...

Repast Baroque curates the story of Julius Caesar through the instrumental music of George Frideric Handel and the 1908 silent film Julius Caesar from Brooklyn’s own Vitagraph Company of America.

by Jocelyn Pook in external music player Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) Open Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) by George Frideric Handel in external music player ...