Handel

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Noun
  1. 1
    the music of Handel wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.

    "Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its first performance in 1742."

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george frederick handel

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"Bach and Handel were contemporaries."

Etymology

From a German surname.

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