George Frideric Handel
1685 to 1759
10 documented presences
7 places
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George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised, – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where George Frideric Handel was documented, and when
1685year
Halle (Saale)attested
“Handel was born in 1685 (the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti) in Halle, in the Duchy of Magdeburg, then part of Brandenburg–Prussia.”
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1685year
Duchy of Magdeburgattested
“Handel was born in 1685 (the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti) in Halle, in the Duchy of Magdeburg, then part of Brandenburg–Prussia.”
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1697year
Berlinattested
“The problem with Mainwaring as an authority for this date, however, is that he tells of how Handel's father communicated with the "king" during Handel's stay, declining the Court's offer to send Handel to Italy on a stipend and that his…”
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1697year
Italyattested
“The problem with Mainwaring as an authority for this date, however, is that he tells of how Handel's father communicated with the "king" during Handel's stay, declining the Court's offer to send Handel to Italy on a stipend and that his…”
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1702year
Berlinattested
“But Ariosti was not in Berlin before the death of Handel's father, and Handel could not have met Bononcini in Berlin before 1702.”
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1702 to 1703period
Brandenburgattested
“Burrows dates this trip to 1702 or 1703 (after his father's death) and concludes that since Handel (through a "friend and relation" at the Berlin court) turned down Frederick's offer to subsidise his musical education in Italy (with the…”
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1702 to 1703period
Italyattested
“Burrows dates this trip to 1702 or 1703 (after his father's death) and concludes that since Handel (through a "friend and relation" at the Berlin court) turned down Frederick's offer to subsidise his musical education in Italy (with the…”
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1712year
Halle (Saale)attested
“Handel went back to Halle twice, to attend the wedding of his sister and the baptism of her daughter, but decided to settle permanently in England in 1712.”
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1712year
Englandattested
“Handel went back to Halle twice, to attend the wedding of his sister and the baptism of her daughter, but decided to settle permanently in England in 1712.”
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1759year
Brook Streetattested
“He died in 1759 at home in Brook Street, at the age of 74.”
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Places George Frideric Handel is documented in
Berlin2 presences · 1697 to 1702Halle (Saale)2 presences · 1685 to 1712Italy2 presences · 1697 to 1702Brandenburg1 presence · 1702England1 presence · 1712
Brook Street1 presence · 1759
Duchy of Magdeburg1 presence · 1685
Other places tied to George Frideric Handel in the record
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1694year
Leipzig Universitymentioned
“In 1694 the Elector of Brandenburg Frederick III (later Prussian King Frederick I) created the school, largely to provide a lecture forum for the jurist Christian Thomasius who had been expelled from Leipzig for his liberal views.”
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1698year
Berlinmentioned
“Mainwaring has Handel travelling to Berlin the next year, 1698.”
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1698year
Venicementioned
“Modern biographers either accept the year as 1698, since most reliable older authorities agree with it, and discount what Mainwaring says about what took place during the trip or assume that Mainwaring conflated two or more visits to Ber…”
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13 March 1702exact date
Halle (Saale)mentioned
“Shortly after commencing his university education, Handel (though Lutheran) on 13 March 1702 accepted the position of organist at the Calvinist Cathedral in Halle, the Domkirche, replacing J.”
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13 March 1702exact date
Halle Cathedralmentioned
“Shortly after commencing his university education, Handel (though Lutheran) on 13 March 1702 accepted the position of organist at the Calvinist Cathedral in Halle, the Domkirche, replacing J.”
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1703year
Hamburgmentioned
“(Other sources say Handel was invited by Gian Gastone de' Medici, whom Handel had met in 1703–04 in Hamburg.) Ferdinando, who had a keen interest in opera, was trying to make Florence Italy's musical capital by attracting the leading tal…”
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1706year
Italymentioned
“According to Mainwaring, in 1706 Handel travelled to Italy at the invitation of Ferdinando de' Medici.”
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1707year
Florencementioned
“Rodrigo, his first all-Italian opera, was produced in the Cocomero theatre in Florence in 1707.”
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1707 to 1708period
Italymentioned
“Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, an allegory, Handel's first oratorio was composed in Italy in 1707, followed by La resurrezione in 1708 which uses material from the Bible.”
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1709year
Teatro Malibranmentioned
“Agrippina was first produced in 1709 at Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice, owned by the Grimanis.”
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1717year
Cannons (house)mentioned
“In 1717 Handel became house composer at Cannons in Middlesex, where he laid the cornerstone for his future choral compositions in the Chandos Anthems.”
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1717year
Middlesexmentioned
“In 1717 Handel became house composer at Cannons in Middlesex, where he laid the cornerstone for his future choral compositions in the Chandos Anthems.”
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1728year
Lisle's Tennis Courtmentioned
“In 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, which made fun of the type of Italian opera Handel had popularised in London, premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and ran for 62 consecutive performances, the longest run in theatre history up…”
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1728year
Londonmentioned
“In 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, which made fun of the type of Italian opera Handel had popularised in London, premiered at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and ran for 62 consecutive performances, the longest run in theatre history up…”
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12 April 1734exact date
16 May 1737exact date
1739year
1741year
14 September 1741exact date
14 September 1741exact date
23 March 1748exact date
1750year
August 1750month
Documented at the same place, the same year
Giovanni BononciniItaly · 1697Prince Eugene of SavoyEngland · 1712John Theophilus DesaguliersEngland · 1712Mary WollstonecraftBrook Street · 1759Jeanne-Marie Leprince de BeaumontBrook Street · 1759
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