In 1727 Handel became a naturalized British citizen in 1728 the academy collapsed. By 1719 Handel had won the support of the king to start the Royal Academy of Music for performances of opera, which presented some of Handel’s greatest operas: Radamisto (1720), Giulio Cesare (1724), Tamerlano (1724), and Rodelinda (1725). Under the sponsorship of the duke of Chandos, he composed his oratorio Esther and the 11 Chandos anthems for choir and string orchestra (1717-20).
The reconciliation of these two men may well have occurred, as has often been said, during a royal party on the River Thames in 1715, during which the F major suite from Handel’s Water Music was probably played. Handel was forced to face his truancy when in 1714 the elector at Hannover, his former employer, became King George I of England. In Italy, Handel composed operas, oratorios, and many small secular cantatas he ended his Italian visit with the stunning success of his fifth opera, Agrippina (1709), in Venice.Īfter returning to Hannover he was granted permission for a second, short trip to London, from which, however, he never returned. In the spring and summer of 17 he traveled to Rome, enjoying the backing of both the nobility and the clergy, and in the late spring of 1707 he made an additional short trip to Naples. He stopped first at Florence in the autumn of 1706. Once again, however, Handel soon felt the urge to move on, and his instincts led him to Italy, the birthplace of operatic style. Thus, in 1703 he traveled to Hamburg, the operatic center of Germany here, in 1704, he composed his own first opera, Almira, which achieved great success the following year. Although his first job, beginning just after his 17th birthday, was as church organist in Halle, Handel’s musical tendencies lay elsewhere. His own musical talent, however, expressed itself so clearly that before his tenth birthday he began to receive, from a local organist, the only formal musical instruction he would ever have. Handel was born February 24, 1685, in Halle, Germany, to a family of no musical distinction. One of the greatest composers of the late baroque period (1700-50) and, during his lifetime, perhaps the most internationally famous of all musicians. George Frederick Handel was born on Februin Halle, Germany.
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