What is the guys name who composed Handels Messiah?

Question

What is his first and last name?

i think the last name is Handel what is the first?

thats the name of the song its his full name?

Answer 1

Messiah (HWV 56, 1741), is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. It is his most famous work and is among the most popular works in the Western choral literature.

Answer 2

George Frederick Handel

Answer 3

George Frederick Handel.
Handel was a Baroque composer, noted for his Messiah and Water Music, and whose style marked the transition from the Baroque to the Classical eras.

Handel was born in Germany, had a modest education in which music played a large part and at the age of 17, enrolled as a law student at the University of Halle. Handel became the organist at the Cathedral church of Halle and, torn between law studies and music, chose the latter. He moved to Hamburg, where he joined the opera orchestra and from there to Italy where he was introduced to the composers Scarletti and Correlli. Handel composed two operas and several cantatas. His opera Agippina was a sensation when performed in Venice in 1709.

Handel was invited to become choirmaster for George Louis, Elector of Hanover, the future George I. He was advised to travel to London to the court of George’s aunt, Queen Anne, where he gained favour with his compositions Ode for the Queen’s Birthday and Jubilate. He was granted an allowance of £200 per annum to remain at court.

British audiences were generally distrustful of the Italian style and so Handel changed his technique to give the public what they desired. He created oratorios using Biblical subjects, dramatically constructed, sung in English, and designed for concert performances. The best known of these is the Messiah and Zadoc the Priest, which was performed at the coronation of George II and every coronation since. His other major works include Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks and Judas Maccabacus.

Handel died in 1759 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. The house where he lived, 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 4HB, is now a museum in his honour. Shortly before he died, Handel had attended a performance of the Messiah given by Tunbridge Wells Musical Society. The performance was so bad that Handel stormed out and returning home wrote a letter of protest ending with the words ‘God rot Tunbridge Wells’. This most terrible of all reviews gave rise to the tag ‘Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells’.

Answer 4

The composer's name is George Frideric Handel (as many people before me have already said), but I wanted to help answer your question details as well:

The "song" is actually a large composition which is titled "Messiah", which we nowadays refer to as "Handel's Messiah" (because Handel wrote it. This is similar to us titling works as "Beethoven's Fifth" to refer to Beethoven's fifth symphony, or "Bram Stoker's Dracula" to refer to Stoker's novel, even though those men did not title the works with their own names in the title).

This work is actually an oratorio (not a "song"), which is usually a large-scale composition including an orchestra, a choir and soloists. In this sense, it is much like an opera, however, it does not include scenery, staging, blocking, or other technical/theatrical elements. It does, however, include many "songs", called movements (which are in different "styles" of the times: air, chorus, recitative, overture, etc), perhaps the most popular of which is "Hallelujah," which is often referred to as "the hallelujah chorus."

I hope that answers your question without explaining in more detail than anyone cares to read.

Answer 5

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Handel composed Handel's Messiah.

DOH!

Answer 6

Gregor Handel, I believe

Answer 7

George Frederick Handel composed Messiah - which is why it is called 'Handel's Messiah' and not, for example. 'Haydn's Messiah'