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List of incidental music by George Frideric Handel HWV Title Premiere Venue Notes 43 The Alchemist: 14 January 1710 Queen's Theatre, London : Instrumental music for the revival of Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist.
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ ˈ h æ n d əl / HAN-dəl; [a] baptised Georg Fried[e]rich Händel, [b] German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] ⓘ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) [3] [c] was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.
George Frideric Handel. Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi (HWV 19) is an opera seria in three acts composed for the first Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel. [1] The libretto is by Nicola Francesco Haym, based on an earlier libretto by Antonio Salvi. Rodelinda has long been regarded as one of Handel's greatest works. [2]
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres.Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
Messiah remains Handel's best-known work, with performances particularly popular during the Advent season; [48] writing in December 1993, the music critic Alex Ross refers to that month's 21 performances in New York alone as "numbing repetition". [104]
Although he was born in Germany, he first visited England in 1710, later moving there and becoming a naturalised citizen, playing a defining role in the music of the British Isles. [13] Handel drew heavily on the continental, particularly Italian, Baroque style, but was also highly influenced by English composers such as Purcell. [14]
Handel's contemporary William Boyce said that he "takes other men's pebbles, and polishes them into diamonds"; "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" is considered a notable example of this accomplishment. [9] It incorporates music taken from the allegro of a concerto in Telemann's Tafelmusik, and from a keyboard gigue by Georg Muffat. [10]
Handel, c. 1729. The 19th-century music critic George Hogarth wrote of Rinaldo that "[t]he romantic interest of the subject, the charms of the music, and the splendour of the spectacle, made it an object of general attraction". [26] Its premiere at the Queen's Theatre on 24 February 1711, possibly under Handel's direction, was a triumphant success.