During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known

In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II

This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additio

How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?

Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Ha