George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-born
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.
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George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-born
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.
The Harmonious Blacksmith is the popular name of the
final movement, Air and variations, of George Frideric
Handel's Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430, for
harpsichord. An air is followed by five doubles
(variations in the English division style): semiquavers
in the right hand; semiquavers in the left hand;
semiquaver triplets in the right and left hands; and
finally demisemiquavers in both hands.
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