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 ...

George Frideric Handel’s father was a barber and valet to the Prince of Saxe-Magdeburg. He was in his mid-sixties when his son was born and he hated music. Somehow young Handel managed to learn the ...

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 ...

The stage and screen legend - a two-time Academy Award winner - is attached to star as George Frideric Handel in "The King of ...

The Chorale, in collaboration with the Lubbock Christian University choirs, will perform George Frideric Handel’s Messiah – one of the most revered masterpieces in history, often performed and ...

Story goes, George Frideric Handel finished “Messiah,” a 260-page oratorio, in a mere 24 days, foregoing sleep and food for the most part, in 1741. It’s that whirlwind of inspiration that ...

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Two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins is attached to star as baroque composer George Frideric Handel in a new feature titled The King of Covent Garden. Embankment Films has launched global ...

to Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock), and Adolf Hitler (1981 TV movie The Bunker), is set to play composer George Frideric Handel in the upcoming feature The King of Covent Garden. Minamata filmmaker ...