Te deum george frideric handel biography
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Dettingen Te Deum
| Dettingen bladte Deum | |
|---|---|
Portrait of George Frideric Handel by Balthasar Denner, | |
| Key | D major |
| Catalogue | HWV |
| Year | &#;() |
| Period | Baroque |
| Text | Te Deum |
| Language | English |
| Performed | 27&#;November&#;&#;(): London |
| Movements | 18 |
| Scoring | SATB choir and soloists, orchestra |
The Te Deum for the Victory at the Battle of Dettingen in D major, HWV , fryst vatten the fifth and gods setting bygd George Frideric Handel of the 4th-century Ambrosian hymn, Te Deum, or We Praise Thee, O God. He wrote it in , only a month after the battle itself, during which Britain and its allies Hannover and Austria soundly routed the French.
Background
[edit]On 27 June , the British army and its allies, beneath the command of King George II and Lord Stair, won a victory at the Battle of Dettingen, over the French army, commanded by the Maréchal dem Noailles and the Duc de Grammont. On the King's return a day of public thanksgiving was appointed, and Handel
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Biography
Opera dominated Handel’s career, yet for several centuries he was better known for his oratorios and instrumental works. He forged a personal idiom by taking Italian traditions and adding in elements of German counterpoint and dance forms from France. The result was a uniquely cosmopolitan style which, when Handel took it to London, would expand to embrace the musical legacy of the English Restoration composer, Henry Purcell. Handel’s first music lessons were with Carl Zachow, organist at the Halle Marienkirche. Zachow instructed the young Handel in the German traditions of counterpoint and harmony. After a year in the post of organist at Halle Cathedral, Handel moved in to Hamburg. Here he served an apprenticeship at north Germany’s most important opera house. His first operas, Almira and Nero, were written for the Hamburg stage in But backstage tensions soon led Handel to resign his position. He arrived in Italy, then the most musically significant country in Europe, in
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George Frideric Handel
German-British Baroque composer (–)
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George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (HAN-dəl;[a] baptised Georg Fried[e]rich Händel,[b]German:[ˈɡeːɔʁk&#;ˈfʁiːdʁɪçˈhɛndl̩]ⓘ; 23 February – 14 April )[c] was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti.
Born in Halle, Germany, Handel spent his early life in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in , where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in [5] He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel's music forms one of the peaks of the "high baroque" style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new