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 ...

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 ...

It’s a bonanza of talent when Crow River Area Youth Orchestra members and mentors and the Crow River Singers join together to perform selections from George Frideric Handel’s ...

After the king’s death in 1727, Handel was commissioned to compose Zadok the Priest for the coronation of George II. The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s ...

Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's 'Hallelujah' chorus or his Music for the Royal Fireworks. Life and Music Handel was born in ...

The composer George Frideric Handel wrote this letter to ... Perhaps hoping to humour Jennens after his disappointment with 'Messiah', Handel does much in this letter to appear favourable to ...

Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. The first part of the oratorio foretells the Savior’s coming while the last part ...

Handel wrote Zadok the Priest for the coronation of King George II in 1727. Amazingly the piece has been performed at the coronation service of every British monarch ever since. The words are ...

His black marble gravestone in the south transept reads GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL BORN YE 23 FEBRUARY 1684 DIED YE 14 ... instruments and an open score of his most well-known oratorio Messiah, composed ...