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George Frideric Handel: Music
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George Frideric Handel was the son of a barber-surgeon. George's father had definite plans for his son. He wanted George to become a lawyer, but George was captured by the sound of music. George's aunt gave him a spinet (an early harpsichord that had a single keyboard and only one string for each note) for his 7th birthday. George and his aunt placed the spinet in the attic and whenever George had a chance he would go to the attic to play.
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Passacaglia - Duo for Violin and Viola (Score & Parts) By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935), edited by Frieda R. Davis, Leonard Davis. Set of performance parts and score for violin and viola. G Minor. 12 pages. Published by International Music Co . (IM.3362)
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George Frideric Handel would become one of the greatest living composers of his time. The shadow of his brilliance and influence would stretch across the musical landscape of future generations. He traveled all over Europe, performing his music, but he was never far from his mother. He would write and visit her often.
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Handel adopted the spelling "George Frideric Handel" on his naturalization as a British subject, and this spelling is generally used in English speaking countries. The original form of his name (Georg Friedrich Händel) is usually called in Germany, but he is known as "Haendel" in France. There was another composer with a similar name, Handl, who was a Slovene and is more commonly known as Jacobus Gallus. This can be very hard for cataloguers (people trying to make a list of his music)[3]
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Passacaglia - Duo for Violin and Cello (score & parts) By George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), edited by Frieda R. Davis, Nathan Stutch. Set of performance parts and score for violin and cello. 10 pages. Published by International Music Co. (IM.3363)
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Frequently on his way home from school, George Frideric would spot the musical director squatting on his haunches against the back wall of the church, sipping from a bottle he had hidden beneath his coat. This became an opportunity, his introduction into the world of music. To garner favor, the young would-be composer decided to steal wine from his father's medicine cabinet, used to aid in the comfort of patients undergoing surgery, and present it to the principal organist at the Lutheran church. There, on late afternoons, as the organist drank wine, he instructed the boy on reading music; on how the black notations on a page corresponded to musical notes on the keyboard of the organ. He ... gave the boy music sheets he could take home with him, to practice on his muted spinet.
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