George Frideric Handel

Anno di nascita

1685

Anno di morte

1759

Nazionalità

German-British

Epoca

Baroque

Opere

Arie

Periodo di composizione

1709 – 2011

Luogo di nascita

Halle (Saale)

Luogo di morte

Westminster

Lingua delle opere

Italian · 57
German · 2
English · 2

Sintesi da Wikipedia

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

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Vita di George Frideric Handel

Nazionalità e periodo

George Frideric Handel è un compositore German-British del periodo Baroque, vissuto dal 1685 al 1759, nato a Halle (Saale) e morto a Westminster.

Movimento e corrente musicale

George Frideric Handel è associato al movimento Baroque music — cornice stilistica che influenza il linguaggio armonico e drammatico delle sue opere.

Maestri e formazione

George Frideric Handel studiò con Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow — formazione che ne plasmò il linguaggio compositivo.

Vita e carriera

Handel was born in 1685 (the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti) in Halle, in the Duchy of Magdeburg, then part of Brandenburg–Prussia. His parents were Georg Händel, aged 63, and Dorothea Taust, daughter of Georg Taust, a priest, and Dorothea Cuno, the niece of Johann Olearius. His father was an eminent barber-surgeon who served the court of Saxe-Weissenfels and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Halle was a relatively prosperous city, home of a salt-mining industry, a centre of trade, and a member of the Hanseatic League. The Margrave of Brandenburg became the administrator of the archepiscopal territories of Mainz, including Magdeburg when they converted, and by the early 17th century held his court in Halle, which attracted renowned musicians. Even the smaller churches all had "able organists and fair choirs", and humanities and the letters thrived (Shakespeare was performed in the theatres early in the 17th century). The Thirty Years' War brought extensive destruction to Halle, and by the 1680s it was impoverished. However, since the middle of the war the city had been under the administration of the Duke of Saxony, and soon after the end of the war he would bring musicians trained in Dresden to his court in Weissenfels. The arts and music, however, flourished only among the higher strata, of which Handel's family was not a part. Georg Händel (senior) was born at the beginning of the war and was apprenticed to a barber in Halle at the age of 14 after …

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