Handel
Essays

Handle and Bach were two composers who transformed classical music in the 18th century. Born in the same year and country, Bach remained obscure in Germany while Handel was a cosmopolitan composer. This paper is an "interview" with both of these composers and discusses their influences, styles, and main choice of venues.

In the words of one prominent scholar, sacred music "appeals to the inner self" and connects oneself "with a deeper source of existence. The repetitive chants and rhythms in sacred music creates a positive attraction"…

Todesfuge or Death Fugue is one of Paul Celan's earliest creations, and, at the same time, one of his best-known works. Roughly speaking, the poem describes the experience of the Holocaust, from one of the horrifying…

It is difficult to find anyone familiar with Western culture who does not know of Handel's Messiah. Even if they do not know it by name, all one need do is hum a few bars of the "Hallelujah Chorus" and they will start…

At one time, "Carey's pathway was pockmarked with crises." Traditionally, however, Carey is usually "portrayed as a 'heroic' character - as one of a class of big, ordinary people who do not resign themselves to…

Creativity is associated with freedom from constraint and defiance of accepted norms in modern American culture. Thus, it is hard to see the formal, compositional requirements of the Baroque and Classical eras as…

Handel and the Baroque Era: Annotated Bibliography

Concert Review: Messiah Refreshed at the Lincoln Center

Although music from the 17th, 18th, and 19th century is all often grouped under the designation of 'classical' music today, the Baroque and the Classical periods have distinctive features and stylization that are…

Scholars of early music face a problem that is one of an important nature and one that endures and that is the question of who is actually the composer of music surviving today and in the form of various written…