More from George Frideric Handel

  1. It is much too good for them,they don't know what to do with it.His comment on 'borrowing' others music.
  2. Handel ist der unerreichte Meister aller Meister. Gehen Sie und lernen Sie von ihm, wie gewaltige Wirkungen mit einfachen Mitteln zu erreic…
  3. You have taken far too much trouble over your opera. Here in England that is mere waste of time. What the English like is something that th…
  4. His hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word 'Wonderful,' as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth…
  5. I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.
  6. Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.
  7. I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.
  8. Handel paralysed music in England for generations and they have not yet quite got over him.

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