George Frideric Handel

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[1]) 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. [1] The legacy of Handel may be found in the dramatic power and lyrical beauty inherent in his music.

## Contents

* 1 List of works
* 2 See also
* 3 External links
* 4 References

## List of works[edit]

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)
* Silla (1714)
* Amadigi di Gaula (1715)
* Radamisto (1720, rev. 1720, 1721, 1728)
* Muzio Scevola, Floridante (both 1721)
* Ottone (1722)
* Flavio (1723)
* Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1723-4)
* Tamerlano (1724, rev. 1731)
* Rodelinda, regina de'Longobardi (1725)
* Scipione, Alessandro (both 1726)
* Admeto, Riccardo I (both 1727)
* Siroe, Tolomeo (both 1728)
* Lotario (1729)
* Partenope (1729–30, rev. 1730, 1736)
* Poro (1731)
* Ezio, Sosarme (both 1732)
* Orlando (1733)
* Arianna (1734)
* Ariodante, Alcina (both 1735)
* Atalanta (1736)
* Arminio, Giustino, Berenice (all 1737)
* Faramondo, Serse (both 1738)
* Imeneo (1738–40)
* Deidamia (1740)

ORCHESTRA:

* Water Music (c.1717)
* Music for Royal Fireworks (1749)

DRAMATIC ORATORIOS:

* Rome: La Resurrezione, Trionfo del Tempo (1708)
* Naples: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (1709)
* Hamburg: Der für die Sünde der Welt gemartete und sterbende Jesus (Brockes Passion) (?1716)
* London: Haman and Mordecai (masque 1720, later rev. as Esther in 1732)
* Acis and Galatea (1718; rev. 1732 incorporating part of 1708 cantata on same subject, and 1743)
* Deborah (1733)
* Athalia (1733)
* Alexander's Feast (1736)
* Israel in Egypt (1738)
* Saul, Ode for St Cecilia's Day (1739)
* L'Allegro, il Pensieroso ed il Moderato (1740)
* Messiah (1741)
* Samson (1741-2)
* Joseph and his Brethren, Semele (1743)
* Belshazzar, Hercules (1744)
* Occasional Oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus (1746)
* Alexander Balus, Joshua (1747)
* Solomon, Susanna (1748)
* Theodora, Alceste (1749)
* Choice of Hercules (1750)
* Jephtha (1751)
* Triumph of Time and Truth (1757)

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)
* O numi eterni (La Lucrezia), sop., continuo (1709)

CHURCH MUSIC:

* Gloria Patri (1707)
* Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate (1712–13)
* Dettingen Te Deum (1743)
* 11 Chandos Anthems (1717–18)
* 4 Coronation Anthems (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 German Arias (1729)

INSTRUMENTAL AND CHAMBER MUSIC:

* 6 Concerti Grossi, str., ww., continuo, Op.3 (1734)
* 12 Concerti Grossi, str., optional wind, Op.6 (1739)
* 5 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
* 12 fl. sonatas
* 6 trio sonatas
* 9 trio sonatas, Op.2 (1722–33)
* 7 trio sonatas, Op.5 (1739)
* viola da gamba sonata
* 8 suites de pièces, (harpsichord) (1720) See also Harmonious Blacksmith
* 8 suites de pièces (1733, these incl. the well-known Chaconne in G)
* 6 Fugues (1736)

## See also[edit]

* Domenico Scarlatti
* Ludwig van Beethoven

## External links[edit]

* HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC BIOGRAPHY
* George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

## References[edit]

1. ↑ The UK Parliament Website: British Citizen by Act of Parliament: George Frideric Handel