A refined opera composer or brusque cutting contest brawler? A noted keyboardist or a savvy impresario? A sweet-natured collector of Art or a quick tempered musical entrepreneur? Pious Lutheran ...

Happy 330th birthday to George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) – or is it George Frederick Handel, or Georg Friedrich Häendel? Whatever you call him, he’s certainly one of the greatest Baroque Era ...

FOR THE EARS Go Bach to the Concert Hall and Get a Handel on the Holidays Whil Pro Musica packages its bounty of year-end concerts as a Bach Festival, they have a wider range than the convenient title ...

My wife and I always begin Christmas by attending a performance of Handel's Messiah. This Christmas, my son John gave me a new book, "Messiah - The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece" ...

Some East Texans got a chance to hear a masterpiece by one of the most well-known musical composers of all time: George Handel's Messiah. Christ Episcopal Church held the performance for the third ...

Handel was born in what is now Germany, but most of his career was spent in London. His major works are still used in British ceremonies such as coronations, and annual events in Britain including ...

“I think I did see heaven open, and the very face of God,” German-born composer George Handel was quoted by his assistant as describing his feelings when he completed the Hallelujah chorus of his ...

LONDON — They were both immigrants in Britain who changed the face of music — one with a harpsichord and a composer’s pen, the other with an electric guitar. George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix ...

THE early spring of 1685, two centuries ago, brought into the world two unsurpassed musicians. Bountiful indeed was the good genius of humanity in giving birth that year to both a Handel and a John ...