Zitate von Georg Friedrich Händel
Georg Friedrich Händel
Geburtstag: 23. Februar 1685
Todesdatum: 14. April 1759
Georg Friedrich Händel war ein deutsch-britischer Komponist des Barock. Sein Hauptwerk umfasst 42 Opern und 25 Oratorien – darunter Messiah mit dem weltbekannten Chor „Halleluja“ –, Kirchenmusik für den englischen Hof, Kantaten, zahlreiche Werke für Orchester sowie Kammer- und Klaviermusik.
Händel, dessen künstlerisches Schaffen sich auf alle musikalischen Genres seiner Zeit erstreckte, war gleichzeitig als Opernunternehmer tätig. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Musiker der Geschichte.
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„I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.“
— George Frideric Handel
James Beattie, letter of May 25, 1780, published in William Forbes An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. (1806) p. 331.
In reply to Lord Kinnoull, who had complimented him on his Messiah, "the noble entertainment which he had lately given the town". Beattie had this on the authority of Kinnoull himself.
„Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.“
— George Frideric Handel
George Bernard Shaw in Ainslee's Magazine, May 1913.
„Handel paralysed music in England for generations and they have not yet quite got over him.“
— George Frideric Handel
Frederick Delius, letter to Ethel Smyth, February 17, 1909; Lionel Carley Delius: A Life in Letters vol. 2 (1988) p. 9.
„This man is the master of us all.“
— George Frideric Handel
Haydn, at a performance of Messiah. Quoted in John Galt George the Third, His Court and Family (1824) p. 34, and in Leopold Schmidt Joseph Haydn (1898) p. 86.
„Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.“
— George Frideric Handel
Beethoven on his deathbed, speaking to Gerhard von Breuning. Published in Friedrich Kerst Beethoven der Mann und der Künstler, wie in seinen Eigenen Words enthüllt no. 111 http://www.bucheralle.org/6C76626D613131/ch35.html;Friedrich Kerst (trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel) Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words (1964), p. 54.
„Händel is the unattained master of all masters. Go and learn from him how to achieve vast effects with simple means.“
— George Frideric Handel
Beethoven, quoted by Ignaz von Seyfried. Published in Friedrich Kerst Beethoven der Mann und der Künstler, wie in seinen Eigenen Words enthüllt no. 111 http://www.bucheralle.org/6C76626D613131/ch35.html;Friedrich Kerst (trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel) Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words (1964), p. 54.
„Händel is the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel on his grave.“
— George Frideric Handel
Beethoven, speaking to J. A. Stumpff in the autumn of 1823. Published in Friedrich Kerst Beethoven der Mann und der Künstler, wie in seinen Eigenen Words enthüllt no. 112 http://www.bucheralle.org/6C76626D613131/ch35.html;Friedrich Kerst (trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel) Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words (1964), p. 54.
„Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.“
— George Frideric Handel
Samuel Butler Notebooks (2004) p. 153.
„Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!“
— George Frideric Handel
Quoted in The Harvard Magazine (December 1862), p. 141.
On composing the "Hallelujah Chorus" in 1741.
„I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.“
— George Frideric Handel
Horatio Townsend An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin (1852) p. 93, citing Laetitia Matilda Hawkins Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs vol. 1 (1822).
His reply on being asked what his feelings were while writing the "Hallelujah Chorus".
„His hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word "Wonderful," as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth, to make love amidst nymphs and shepherds (for the beauties of all religions found room within his breast), his strains drop milk and honey, and his love is the youthfulness of the Golden Age.“
— George Frideric Handel
Leigh Hunt Table-Talk (1851) pp. 147-8.
„You have taken far too much trouble over your opera. Here in England that is mere waste of time. What the English like is something that they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.“
— George Frideric Handel
Richard Alexander Streatfeild Handel (2005) p. 195, citing Anton Schmid Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (1854) p. 29
In conversation with Gluck.
