George Frideric Handel
According to Christopher Hogwood's biography of Handel, the composer was christened George Friederich Händel in Halle when he was one day old. Later in life, when he became a naturalized Englishman, he settled on the name George Frideric Handel.
Handel
Handel
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Operas and oratorios

Alcina

Amadigi di Gaula


Ariodante

Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Hercules

Messiah

Rinaldo

Theodora

Arias
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Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
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