[[Image:George Handel.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Balthasar Denner's portrait of George Frideric Handel (1733)]][['''George Frideric Handel]] ''' (1685 - 1759) (German: '''Georg Friedrich Händel''') was a [[German]]-born [[British]] (since 1727<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/archives-highlights/handel-and-naturalisation/ The UK Parliament Website: ''British Citizen by Act of Parliament: George Frideric Handel'']</ref>) composer and organist. His works fall within the [[Baroque]] era of Western [[Classical music]]. Handel was, during his lifetime, perhaps the most internationally famous of all musicians. [http://www.8notes.com/school/history/handel.asp] The legacy of Handel may be found in the dramatic power and lyrical beauty inherent in his [[music]].
== List of works ==
[[Opera|OPERAS]]:
* [[Hamburg]]: Almira, Nero (lost) (both 1705)
* Florindo e Dafne (lost) (1707)
* [[Florence]]: Rodrigo (1707)* [[Venice]]: Agrippina (1709)* [[London]]: Rinaldo (1711, rev. 1731)
* Il pastor fido (1712; 2nd version with ballet Terpsicore, 1734)
* Teseo (1712)
* Siroe, Tolomeo (both 1728)
* Lotario (1729)
* Partenope (1729-301729–30, rev. 1730, 1736)
* Poro (1731)
* Ezio, Sosarme (both 1732)
* Arminio, Giustino, Berenice (all 1737)
* Faramondo, Serse (both 1738)
* Imeneo (1738-401738–40)
* Deidamia (1740)
[[Orchestra|ORCHESTRA]]:
* [[Water Music]] (c.1717)* [[Music for Royal Fireworks]] (1749)
DRAMATIC [[oratorio|ORATORIOS]]:
* [[Rome]]: La Resurrezione, Trionfo del Tempo (1708)
* Naples: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (1709)
* Triumph of Time and Truth (1757)
[[Cantata|CANTATAS ]] AND CHAMBER DUETS: Handel comp. 100 of the former and 20 of the latter. Among the best known are:
* Silete Venti, sop., instr. (1729)
* La terra è liberata (Apollo e Dafne), sop., bass, instr. (c.1708)
CHURCH MUSIC:
* [[Gloria ]] Patri (1707)* Utrecht [[Te Deum ]] and [[Jubilate ]] (1712-131712–13)
* Dettingen Te Deum (1743)
* 11 Chandos [[Anthem]]s (1717-181717–18)
* 4 Coronation [[Anthem]]s (1727: The King Shall Rejoice; Let thy hand be strengthened; My heart is inditing; Zadok the Priest)
* The Ways of Zion do Mourn, funeral [[anthem]] for Queen Caroline (1737)
VOCAL:
* Birthday Ode for [[Queen Anne ]] (1713)* 9 [[Germany|German ]] Arias (1729)
INSTRUMENTAL AND [[chamber music|CHAMBER MUSIC]]:* 6 [[concerto grosso|Concerti Grossi]], str., ww., continuo, Op.3 (1734)
* 12 Concerti Grossi, str., optional wind, Op.6 (1739)
* 5 [[concerto|Concerti]], orch. (1741)* 6 [[organ ]] concerti, Op.4 (1738)
* 6 organ concerti, Op.7 (1760)
* 6 organ concerti (1740)
* 15 chamber sonatas (fls., recorders), Op.1 (1724)
* 3 concerti a due cori
* 2 ob. sonatas[[sonata]]s
* 12 fl. sonatas
* 6 [[trio sonatassonata]]s* 9 trio sonatas, Op.2 (1722-331722–33)
* 7 trio sonatas, Op.5 (1739)
* va. [[viol|viola da gamba ]] sonata* 8 suites [[suite]]s de pièces, hpd. ([[harpsichord]]) (1720)See also Harmonious Blacksmith
* 8 suites de pièces (1733, these incl. the well-known Chaconne in G)
* 6 Fugues [[Fugue]]s (1736) See also Harmonious Blacksmith
== See also ==
*[[Franz SchubertDomenico Scarlatti]]
*[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]
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