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George Frideric Handel

1685 - 1759

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George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( HAN-dəl; baptised Georg Fried[e]rich Händel, German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Frideric Handel has received more than 5,559,842 page views. His biography is available in 129 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). George Frideric Handel is the 10th most popular composer, the 20th most popular biography from Germany (down from 19th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Composer.

George Frideric Handel is most famous for his operas, oratorios, and compositions.

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  • 84.20

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  • 129

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, George Frideric Handel ranks 10 out of 1,451. Before him are Frédéric Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Joseph Haydn, and Franz Schubert. After him are Robert Schumann, Antonín Dvořák, Gustav Mahler, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Giacomo Puccini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1685, George Frideric Handel ranks 2. Before him is Johann Sebastian Bach. After him are Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, George Berkeley, Domenico Scarlatti, Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Brook Taylor, Jean-Marc Nattier, Johann Maria Farina, Edward England, John Gay, and Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve. Among people deceased in 1759, George Frideric Handel ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand VI of Spain, Louise Élisabeth of France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Carl Heinrich Graun, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Alamgir II, and Louise Henriette de Bourbon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George Frideric Handel ranks 20 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht Dürer (1471), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Richard Wagner (1813), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Peter Paul Rubens (1577), and Max Weber (1864). After him are Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Frederick the Great (1712), Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Engels (1820), and Max Planck (1858).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, George Frideric Handel ranks 4. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), and Richard Wagner (1813). After him are Robert Schumann (1810), Johannes Brahms (1833), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Richard Strauss (1864), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), and Carl Orff (1895).

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