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†1759 George Frederick Handel

George Frederick Handel was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. The Great Mr Handel Full Movie (1942)  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. In turn, Handel’s music forms one of the peaks of the “high baroque” style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a […]

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Events 1750s – Lisbon’s great earthquake

1755 Lisbon’s great earthquake Events 1752: The British Empire adopts the Gregorian Calendar, skipping 11 days from 3 September to 13 September. On the calendar, 2 September is followed directly by 14 September. 1754: The Treaty of Pondicherry ends the Second Carnatic War and recognizes Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of the Carnatic. 1754: King’s College is founded by a royal charter of George II of Great Britain. 1754–1763: The French and Indian War, the North American chapter of the Seven Years’ War, is fought in colonial North America, mostly by the French and their allies against the English and their allies. 1755: The great Lisbon earthquake destroys most of Portugal‘s capital and […]

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1750 Adeste Fideles

An excellent recent pamphlet contains important new discoveries regarding this hymn. The music and Latin words appear to have been written by John Francis Wade; at least, the three earliest known manuscripts dating from about 1750 are in his handwriting and signed by him. The first printing of the words is in The Evening Office of the Church, in Latin and English; UTS.  The words of Adeste Fideles in Latin and English are on the thirteenth unnumbered page in the ‘Troses” section, after p. 322. The English translation starts: ”Draw near ye faithful Christians, With Joy to Bethlehem come.” No […]

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