Your Favorite Composer's Favorite Composer | The Middle-Class Myth of Georg Frideric Handel

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0:00 Introduction
0:32 I: From Halle to Italy
16:37 II: England
35:12 III: The Royal Academy
47:22 IV: Royal Academy 2: Electric Boogaloo
55:57 V: Pivot to Oratorio
1:16:53 VI: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
1:20:29 VII: Lead to Believe
1:26:18 VIII: The People’s Composer?
1:37:49 IX: The End

Portions of this video were filmed on location at Central Presbyterian Church in Geneseo, NY.

📚 Further reading:
“The Lives of George Frideric Handel” by David Hunter (The Boydell Press, 2015)
“George Frideric Handel: A Life With Friends” by Ellen T. Harris (W. W. Norton, 2014)
“The Faber Pocket Guide to Handel” by Edward Blakeman (Faber & Faber, 2009)

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Music (all by Georg Frideric Handel unless otherwise noted):
- "Dance! #2" by Thomas Little, performed by Raymond Hawkins
- Dixit Dominus, HWV 232, performed by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS65-ZvUSSM
- La resurrezione, HWV 47, performed by the Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Danton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fgheA65m5s
- Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74, performed by the European Union Baroque Orchestra conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzOq2Y46_lk
- "Utrecht” Te Deum, HWV 278, performed by the European Union Baroque Orchestra conducted by Lars Ulrik Mortensen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6PvBHi9ATU
- Water Music, HWV 348–350, performed by the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin conducted by Georg Kallweit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVAB2z1RPu4
- Zadok the Priest, HWV 258, performed by the English Concert and the Händelfestspielorchester Halle conducted by Howard Arman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xWhclVLQyI
- Deidamia, HWV 42, performed by Concerto Köln: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWt4dLKQkOQ
- Organ Concerto in B-flat Major, HWV 306, performed by Karl Richter and the Münchener Bach Orchester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDMX-PZYEMQ
- Messiah, HWV 56, performed by the Choir of The Queen's College and the Academy of Ancient Music, Oxford, conducted by Owen Rees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBHbadRVBU
- Theodora, HWV 68, performed by Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y5J_EBgOZM
- Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, performed by the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra conducted by Alexander Rudin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DlAW-4FkKg
- "Marcia" from Scipione, HWV 20, performed by Thomas Little
- Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351, performed by the Qatar Philharmonic conducted by David Niemann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al-9FOTg0lY