George Frideric Handel Biography, Background. George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt. From 1720 until 1728 the operas at the King’s Theatre in London were staged by the Royal Academy of.
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Handel was born in 1685 (the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti) in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg (then part of Brandenburg-Prussia). His parents were Georg Händel, aged 63, and Dorothea Taust. His father was an eminent barber-surgeon who served the court of Saxe-Weissenfels and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Halle was a relatively prosperous city, home of a salt-mining industry and centre of trade (and m…
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