In 1707 George Frideric Handel, a 22-year-old radical composer working in Rome, startled the Vatican and the public with “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion).

Handel’s 'Messiah' would be nice.” This was one of those times wherein I sometimes felt I was from another planet, as the return look was blank. Gosh, I’m old. The tech found Handel’s music on the ...

It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

No one today knows the name of one of the great, unsung heroes of the classical music canon — the composer George Frideric ...

Incredibly, both George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix lived at the same address in London. Just not together, to be clear There are exceptions, but history seems to indicate that all the great ...

George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. While legend declares that this accelerated fervor resulted from divine ...

In 1707 George Frideric Handel, a 22-year-old radical composer working in Rome, startled the Vatican and the public with “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” (The Triumph of Time and ...