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.
— 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.
— George Frideric Handel
Samuel Butler Notebooks (2004) p. 153.
— 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.
— 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.
— 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.
— George Frideric Handel
Leigh Hunt Table-Talk (1851) pp. 147-8.
— 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.
— George Frideric Handel
Quoted in The Harvard Magazine (December 1862), p. 141.
On composing the "Hallelujah Chorus" in 1741.
— 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.
— 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".
— George Frideric Handel
George Bernard Shaw in Ainslee's Magazine, May 1913.
— George Frideric Handel
Frederick Delius, letter to Ethel Smyth, February 17, 1909; Lionel Carley Delius: A Life in Letters vol. 2 (1988) p. 9.
