George Frideric Handel Quotes on Music
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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 they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.
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It is much too good for them,they don't know what to do with it.His comment on 'borrowing' others music.
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Er ist der Meister von uns allen!
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Handel ist der unerreichte Meister aller Meister. Gehen Sie und lernen Sie von ihm, wie gewaltige Wirkungen mit einfachen Mitteln zu erreichen ist.
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His hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word 'Wonderful,' as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth, to make love amidst nymphs and shepherds (for the beauties of all religions found room within his breast), his strains drop milk and honey, and his love is the youthfulness of the Golden Age.
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Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.
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Handel paralysed music in England for generations and they have not yet quite got over him.