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Who did George Handel work for?
music place
Who did George Frederick Handel work for?
music place
What famous work was George Frederick Handel commissioned to write using an English text?
water suite
What is Handel's best known work?
the messiah was handels most famous peice of music.
What is handel's most famous religious work?
Handel's Messiah with the most famous part being the Hallelujah Chorus.
What was handel famous for?
Handel was famous for his oratorios such as the "Messiah", his most famous work. Hallelujah, from the Messiah is one of the most well known 'tunes' of today.
What does Big Ben clock tower chimes a tune from a famous work by what composer?
Handel
Why was the Hallelujah Chorus by George Frideric Handel written and why?
It's one movement from a larger work, "The Messiah."
Who influenced Handel?
He influenced most of the classical composers. Especially Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven: Both Mozart and Beethoven studied his works for their own knowledge on counterpoint and Mozart wrote an arrangement to Handel's most well known work Messiah. He also used the theme from Messiah, "And With His Stripes" in the Kyrie of his Requiem. He is reputed to have said of him, "Handel understands affect better than any of us. When he chooses, he strikes like a thunder bolt." Beethoven wrote that he was "the master of us all... the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb". Beethoven also emphasised above all the simplicity and popular appeal of Handel's music when he said..Haydn was inspired to write his two greatest oratorios The Creation and The Seasons after hearing performances of Handel's Israel in Egypt and Messiah in London. His music also inspired pieces from later composers such as Brahms, Grainger and Schoenberg.
What was Handel's most popular work?
The Messiah is Handel's best known religious work.
What musical work was the result of a 1741 commission by the Viceroy of Ireland for a Dublin Charity event?
The work is George Frideric Handel's Messiah, which was originally an Easter offering on the stage of Musick Hall in Dublin on April 13, 1742. It became Handel's most popular work and is still cherished today.
Which genre is Handel said to have invented?
Handel is said to have invented the English oratorio genre with his work "Messiah." Oratorios are large-scale musical works typically based on religious texts and performed without costumes or staging. Handel's "Messiah" remains one of the most popular and enduring oratorios in the classical music canon.
