The composer George Frideric Handel was a Governor and benefactor of the Foundling Hospital, and an...

1. Georg Friedrich Haendel
The composer George Frideric Handel was a Governor and benefactor of the Foundling Hospital,
and annual performances of Messiah offered important sources of revenue for the Hospital. Handel
supplied his first benefit live performance for the Hospital in 1749 to fund the completion of the
Chapel, and composed the anthem Blessed are they that considereth the poor, referred to as the
Foundling Hospital Anthem, for this event. The event was so successful that the Governors asked
him for one more concert the following 12 months; Handel selected to perform Messiah and he gave
performances every year until his dying in 1759. He also paid for the first organ to be put in in the
Hospital Chapel.
In 1702, following his father's wishes, Handel began finding out law under Christian Thomasius at
the University of Halle 14 He earned an appointment for one 12 months because the organist within
the former cathedral, by then an evangelical reformed church. Handel seems to have been unhappy,
and in 1703 he accepted a place stock as violinist and harpsichordist within the orchestra of the
Hamburg Oper am Gaensemarkt 15 There he met the composers Johann Mattheson , Christoph
Graupner and Reinhard Keiser His first two operas, Almira and Nero , had been produced in 1705.
sixteen He produced two other operas, Daphne and Florindo , in 1708. It is unclear whether or not
Handel directed these performances.
In the course of the summer time of 1741, The 3rd Duke of Devonshire invited Handel to Dublin ,
capital of the Kingdom of Eire , to give concert events for the advantage of native hospitals. 65 His
Messiah was first carried out on the New Music Hall in Fishamble Street on thirteen April 1742,
with 26 boys and five males from the mixed choirs of St Patrick's and Christ Church cathedrals
collaborating. sixty six Handel secured a steadiness between soloists and refrain which he by no
means surpassed.
The a hundred and five-quantity Haendel-Gesellschaft ("Handel Society") version was revealed
between 1858 and 1902—mainly as a result of efforts of Friedrich Chrysander For modern
performance, the realisation of the basso continuo reflects 19th century observe. Vocal scores drawn
from the edition had been published by Novello in London, however some scores, such because the
vocal score to Samson are incomplete.
The unique type of his identify, Georg Friedrich Haendel, is mostly utilized in Germany and
elsewhere, however he is called "Haendel" in France. A different composer, Jacob Handl or Haendl
(1550 - 1591) is often known by the Latin type Jacobus Gallus that seems in his publications.