What better way to ring in the holiday season than a BBC documentary on George Frideric Handel, the Baroque composer of Water Music (1717), The Messiah (1742) and Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749). But how exactly did a German composer wind up in London in 1710 and create music that would become the soundtrack for the British royalty? [Oil painting a…
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