A Brief History of Handel, the Big Opera Master

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[@RogwinMusic]

G.F. handel...My #1 favorite Composer, for life ( Bach #2)

[@claudiobochatay3408]

Your History videos are pure gold!

[@obrcht]

"Handle is the only person I want to meet before I die, and the only person I would want to be if I was not J. S. Bach." When this quote was brought to Mozart's attention, he agreed.

[@fredwollah]

Thank you for your great work, I enjoyed every second of this presentation. Handel is my #1 favourite composer, then #2 Mozart, #3 Bach, #4 VIvaldi and #5 Beethoven.

[@g.Nick339]

Thanks for sharing! I learnt a lot about his different works! The children's hospital he played for was called The Foundling Hospital founded in 1739 by Captain Thomas Corum; the institute began caring for children in 1740/41 and the hospital once covered a large part of London we now know as Camden around Russel Square Bloomsbury. George Frideric Handel also left £20,000 to the hospital, as well as making £7,000 from concerts playing Messiah; there is now a museum based on the hospital called The Foundling Museum. The museum has a permanent display about Handle on the top floor, the space is dedicated to Handle's legacy and includes his will, original music sheets and objects he owned. The collection on Handle’s work is the largest anywhere in the world and is The Gerald Coke Handel Collection.

[@TimWasher]

I came here while researching Handel's Samson for a comedy. But today I'm going to create a lesson using your "neef" joke as an example of the improv principle "there are no mistakes, only gifts." Well played. Thank you for this video.

[@michaljuricka]

Thank you, these series are really helping me with understanding these musical giants and with studying for my music theory finals.. Thank you thank you!

[@carinhickey2601]

Thank you! I used this for my daughters homeschooling today after we read a brief bio on Handel. They loved it!

[@maestrotheoretically519]

Love this series awesome vid thx

[@melissahyberger]

Truly enjoyed listening to your knowledge on such a incredible Composer.

[@marg1661]

Can you Handel this?

[@kneza96BG]

She can always come Bach if she cant Handel it now.

[@samuelrappaport6162]

@@kneza96BG oof

[@bluestarmusical4944]

@@kneza96BG she still has a huge liszt of videos to make, no coming bach now

[@galberts]

Man you are so productive! So many vids! Started following you take it easy don't burn out take care

[@cryptopotomus3948]

I’m doing music appreciation with my daughter and we BOTH appreciate these informative FUN videos! Thanks!

[@cryptopotomus3948]

PS what’s up with the Eye Dr. Taylor blinding the greats! Lol

[@ourhistorychannel]

Excellent work!

[@Silvertestrun]

Thank you!

[@titicoqui]

love your quotes from other masters for added credibility and awe

[@christydethlefs9850]

Thank you so much for this video

[@vidakat2007]

Thank you for this fascinating history. BTW, another favorite musician of the era, Vivaldi, was born only 7 years earlier, in 1678, on March 4th.

[@davewhiteman8353]

Enjoyed that. Thankyou.

[@gitfiddler716]

4:55. You been... THUNDERSTRUCK! 🎸🤘

[@shnimmuc]

Handel has made great progress in becoming rightly Bach`s equal. Both are considered apex composers. Handel`s output is around 305 hours of music, Bach`s around 275. Haydn leads all first rate composers with 340 hours, while Telemann was most prolific at 350 hours.

[@kirahoffman5167]

Love this video!! Really well researched and delivered. (The thumb is definielty a finger, as we have ten of them. :)

[@danieljanostik3564]

This video is so good that I can't Händel it!

[@honorembaya3416]

Nice video ! Haendel is one of my favourite By the way , how long his oratorios like the messiah can take to be performed well and which piano level i suppose to have for this..??

[@toddmcnasty5050]

Well done.

[@karenliu5670]

Very well explained and detailed information. Thank you so much for doing this. You are amazing :)

[@willemdefesch1687]

By stating that writing an opera is like writing, producing and recording a movie you seem to suggest that Händel also wrote the texts he set to music, which isn't the case. That's what librettists did/do. Also, what a way to pronounce Zachow. The ch should be similar to the ch in Bach. One more thing, the 'first English operas', Esther and Deborah, you mention are oratorios, which isn't very different of course, but there's a quite clear distinction when it comes to the origin of the story that is set to music. Good point about the inventiveness.

[@reee7225]

I love your videos! Keep up the good work! : D

[@byrolyn8182]

Handel's Messiah is my favorite opera.

[@jorgecervantes9661]

You should do a video of something regarding piano duets. Love your videos :)

[@PurpleSixBeats]

Really well done video. Kept Me interested from start to finish. 🙂

[@ardeliapadmasawitri9690]

Thank you very much for the informative video! I love the way you talk! May I know in which source do you find Mozart´s and Beethoven´s testimony about Handel ?

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

ardelia padmasawitri In fact, it would have been better to have quoted Haydn’s views as he had actually been to England and heard more of Handel’s music than Mozart and Beethoven put together.

[@lirizarry_4922]

Love this series!

[@dblacktenn]

I'll talk about the largest difference between Bach and Handel in terms of popularity in modern times. Handel composed a master piece recognized globally and Bach did not. Oh, Bach composed some great music but nothing that would be recognized by most people particularly during the Christmas season and particularly those people who are not musically inclined. Obviously I am referring to "The Messiah" or "Messiah". I personally think Handel and Bach were equally talented. However, it just takes one piece of composition to set a composer apart from the rest. For example...Beethoven is well known because of his 5th and 9th Symphonies. BTW, I love your channel. What a refreshing view inside the mind of a master of music history. Keep up the great work.

[@heatheralice89]

I am so glad I had Handel's Queen of Sheba to walk into the church for my wedding.

[@Rodney-z5s]

I love Hanell

[@kaloarepo288]

I find it interesting that the house where Handel lived in London is now a museum devoted to his memory but Handel also shares the space with the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix who lived a few doors down from here(different centuries of course)and who was reported to have expressed admiration for Handel's music.Interesting juxtaposition.

[@nathanthomascherian3572]

oo interesting :)

[@faauluulugalal5461]

What do you call the valley between Batch and Handel?

[@HardluckHutch]

Do Salieri please.

[@Rodney-z5s]

Interesting statemen, as a teen i wondered how guns n roses and def leppard and poison could come out at the same time and be the same age.

[@indradhanush5444]

Kaash ..Bach aur handel mil paate aur koi aisa music hota ..jise ye dono mahaan kalakaar mil k rachna kartay ....may socuta hoon Kaash us samay instagram ya mobile hota ...kya he maza aaya Bach aur handel live aaye hain insta me Hum bus kalpana he kar sakte hain .. Dhanya Mr.Handel ka itihaas sunay aaapne handel mere bhe favourite kalakaar hain

[@Marxuaa]

How do you know all about this? I searched on Wikipedia and it’s really confusing

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

He was a loving, warm man. He threatened to throw a soprano out of the window (true story).

[@RogwinMusic]

Who hasnt....

[@ihno45]

One little thing: Bach wasn't well known, he was pretty unknown. He was know as an expert for organs but not as a composer. Mendelssohn made him popular but 75 years after his death.

[@statichackx]

Who is john taylor and what did he do to haendels eye!?

[@keleniengaluafe2600]

❤❤❤❤❤👍

[@Headhunter_212]

Apparently, Mainwaring made a lot of stuff up, either screwing up details and timelines or just straight-up exaggerating, such as the degree to which Handel Sr discouraged his interest in music. Apparently tons of his assertions are impossible , as records of the other people involved disproved that Handel Jr met them I the time and place Mainwaring asserts

[@SaraH-ps8ob]

Hi guys

[@purplebombdetonation3142]

Esther and Deborah are both oratorios, not operas.

[@bacchicbachian3694]

Haha you really butchered those German names ;p. Great video though, very informative.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

Bacchic Bachian ...and some of the English ones!

[@shnimmuc]

He is very much considered the equal of Bach.

[@AmiTVerma-to3vn]

0:38 just as well known as Bach ??? Handel was internationally known celebrity while Bach was locally known genius

[@abaig6382]

1:04

[@byrolyn8182]

The iron age began in ancient Africa before the Europeans.

[@nightwhenjar]

4:35 hamburger...

[@reneegill4600]

Yeet

[@fernwehn5925]

Bacc

[@정이든-b1v]

쌩큐

[@kristianj.8798]

Handel means "trade" in Danish.

[@nova-astro1992]

Neef

[@ThePhreakass]

Be careful! Handel fans are extremely obnoxious and are very angry at us Bachians because his work seems insignificant when its compared to Bach

[@byrolyn8182]

Revelations in the bible describes Jesus as having feet of bronze and hair like wool. Let us not white wash African history or Christianity.

[@niilovaananen3215]

1:02 why is Bach Tom Hanks

[@Rodney-z5s]

Im sure he made a pocket full of money

[@amadorxo]

Hamburger

[@Shaeith]

Please stop saying “Handle” you just need to pronounce it like ‘Hendel’ - I feel like Americans are capable of that. Händel is my favorite composer and I cringe every time I hear Americans pronouncing it wrong. 😂🙉

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

He hated Germany anyway 😊

[@DaninMaine]

Lots of mistakes. Handel never wrote any operas in English. His music never disappeared- his Coronation Anthems and Messiah have been performed ever since they were written, for example. But otherwise a good video.

[@spoolsout1]

Great but proper pronunciations would have made it more authentic - why do Americans have no idea that there are other languages in the world?