This book tells about the life and Bach and Handel. George Frederick
Handel German — English composer of the Baroque era, famous for his
operas, oratorios and concerts.
Handel was born in Germany in one year with Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti.
Having received a musical education and experience in Italy, he then moved to London, later became a British citizen.
Among
his most famous works are "Messiah", "Music on water" and "music for
the Royal fireworks".Apparently, the family moved händel in the Saxon
town in the early seventeenth century. The composer's grandfather,
Valentine Handel, was a coppersmith from Breslau; in Halle he married
the daughter of a master coppersmith Samuel Bijlenga. His son, Georg was
a court Barber—surgeon who served the court of Brandenburg and Saxony,
and an honorary citizen of Halle. When was born George Frederick, the
first child of George by his second marriage, he was 63 years old.
The
mother of Georg Friedrich Dorothea grew up in a family of a priest.
When her brother, sister and father died from the plague, to the end she
remained near them, and refused to leave them. George and Dorothea were
married in 1683 in the electorate of Brandenburg. Handel's parents were
very religious and were typical representatives of the bourgeois
society of the late seventeenth century.
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