GEORGE FREDRIC HANDEL

CHILDHOOD

• His dad was George Handel and his mom was Dorothea Handel.
• he went to the university of Halle he got his education for free.
• He was born in Halle Germany February third 1685

SIBLINGS

• . Siblings: Johanna Christiana Händel, Karl Händel, Dorothea Sophia Händel, Dorothea Elisabet Händel, Christoph Händel, Sophia Rosina Händel, Anna Barbara Händel, Gottfried Händel.

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• Handel was the son of a barber-surgeon. He showed a marked gift for music. His father died when Handel was 11, but his education had been provided for.

ABOUT HIM

• George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

ADULTHOOD

• In 1705, Baroque composer George Frideric Handel he made his debut as an opera composer with Almira. He produced several operas with the Royal Academy of Music in England before forming the New Royal Academy of Music in 1727. When Italian operas fell out of fashion, he started composing oratorios, including his most famous, Messiah

ADULTHOOD

• Handel, a cosmopolitan figure who was German by birth but who became a naturalised British citizen in 1727, is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of his age.

FUN FACT

• Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel form the twin creative peaks of the18th century. Though they were born in the same country in 1685 and knew each other's music, they never met.

FUN FACT

• Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a musical family. Orphaned before he turned 10 years old, he was looked after by his eldest brother

WATER MUSIC

• https://youtu.be/Kuw8YjSbKd4
• Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request for a concert on the River Thames.

ATHALIA

• https://youtu.be/iH3dirdWoO8
• The story is based on that of the Biblical queen Athaliah. Athalia, Handel's third oratorio in English, was completed on 7 June 1733,[2] and first performed on 10 July 1733 at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.[3] The Bee (14 July 1733) reported that the performance was "performed with the utmost Applause,

SARABANDE

• https://youtu.be/klPZIGQcrHA
• It was left in obscurity since its composition in the early 1700s, until the director Stanley Kubrick took a shine to it for his 1970s film, Barry Lyndon. At that point, it was as if someone had lit a blue touch paper and retired as film and television directors the world over proclaimed themselves fans

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