Unlike Handel’s fellow countryman and contemporary Johann Bach (the two were born the same year but never met), Handel never had a musical family. George’s father was a practical “surgeon-barber” who ...

Picture this: two ambitious young Turks at the Hamburg Opera on Dec. 5, 1704. Johann Mattheson, age 23: tenor, harpsichordist, conductor, composer. George Frideric ...

THE early spring of 1685, two centuries ago, brought into the world two unsurpassed musicians. Bountiful indeed was the good genius of humanity in giving birth that year to both a Handel and a John ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel ...

My wife and I always begin Christmas by attending a performance of Handel's Messiah. This Christmas, my son John gave me a new book, "Messiah - The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece" ...

The latest recording from Pygmalion, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” and works written for Anne-Sophie Mutter are among our selections. At Carnegie Hall, the English Concert made a case for ...

Some East Texans got a chance to hear a masterpiece by one of the most well-known musical composers of all time: George Handel's Messiah. Christ Episcopal Church held the performance for the third ...

Hallelujah! This week, the composer whose music illuminated Georgian London, and who refined the art of bringing emotion alive in works that still resonate for us today A German composer who brought ...

Handel was born in what is now Germany, but most of his career was spent in London. His major works are still used in British ceremonies such as coronations, and annual events in Britain including ...