The following year Queen Anne granted him an annual. For Bachtrack’s Baroque Music Month, musicologist and passionate Handel advocate Corrina Connor and Margaret Steinitz, Artistic Director of the London Bach Society, debate the relative merits of their preferred Baroque composer. The concert included an anthem specially written by Handel called ‘Blessed are they that considereth the poor’, known today as the ‘Foundling Hospital Anthem’ and ended with the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’, lifted directly from Messiah – a work that few of his audience would have known. He quickly became the de facto resident composer of the Haymarket opera company, and a court insider. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. George Frideric Handel was a German born composer (original spelling Georg Friedrich Hndel) who moved to Britain and settled there, becoming closely. To show its gratitude, the Hospital made Handel a Governor. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727. The new chapel was the perfect setting for him to promote his work while being seen to support a worthy cause and he continued to perform Messiah there for the rest of his life as well as donating a new organ to it. In May 1749, Handel, having approached the Foundling Hospital Governors, gave a benefit concert to raise funds for the completion of The Foundling Hospital Chapel. ![]() In 1741, over just 24 days, Handel wrote the music for Messiah with a libretto by Charles Jennens with whom he had previously collaborated on his oratorio Saul. ![]() Libretto by Friedrich Christian Feustking based on Giulio Pancieri First performance at Hamburg, Theater am Gänsemarkt on 8 January 1705 Nero - German. He was one of the noted philanthropists of the 18th Century, using his reputation as a leading composer to support charitable causes, such as the Foundling Hospital, for which he raised significant sums of money as well as making it a beneficiary of his will Composer: George Frideric Handel 1685 - 1759 : List of operas: Almira - Singspiel - German. The composer George Frideric Handel was born in Halle in Germany in 1685 but took up residence in London in 1712.
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