George Frideric
Handel (23 February 1685 �V 14 April 1759) was a
German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and
organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music. He
received critical musical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling
in London (1712) and becoming a naturalised British subject in 1727. By then he
was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the
middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.