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George Frideric Handel
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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned.
— Libretto mainly from KJV by
George Frideric Handel
German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
- Fame83.8
- Momentum15.1
- Germany rank#22
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Updated 2026-07-17
He wrote the piece that plays at every British coronation and the oratorio everyone hears at Christmas, then died wealthy enough for Westminster Abbey to give him a state funeral — unusual for a composer in 1759, and a measure of how completely he'd bent English musical taste to his will.
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Born in Halle in 1685, Handel moved through Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He launched three opera companies to feed the English nobility's appetite for Italian opera, channeling both middle-German choral tradition and Italian Baroque into a high style that brought the form to its peak. In 1737 a physical breakdown forced a creative pivot: he turned from opera to English oratorios, courting the middle class instead. After Messiah in 1742 he never wrote another Italian opera. One of his coronation anthems, Zadok the Pr…
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George Frideric Handel
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Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us.
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George Frideric Handel
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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is the righteous Saviour, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen
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George Frideric Handel
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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
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George Frideric Handel
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Why do the nations so furiously rage together: and why do the people imagine a vain thing?
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- 6 Sonatas for Flute & Continuo1984
- Messiah (The Complete Oratorio)1984
- Messiah: Favorite Choruses & Arias1984
- Der Messias1984
- 6 Organ Concertos1984
- Aminta e Fillide1984
- 6 Recorder Sonatas1984
- Organ Concertos op. 41984
- Der Messias Auszüge in deutscher Sprache1984
- Handel: Lucrezia; Va tacito e nascosto / Mozart: Il tenero momento; Parto, parto; Lungi da te, mio bene1984
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Momentum15.1
Historical26.8
Now attention8.6
Source confidence80.0
Completeness90.0
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