George Frideric Handel (English Wikipedia)

There is a tantalising suggestion by Handel's biographer, Jonathan Keates, that he may have come to London in 1710 and settled in 1712 as a spy for the eventual Hanoverian successor to Queen Anne, George I. Day, Peter (12 April 2009). "How Handel played the markets". BBC News. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.

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Dean 2006, p. 226 According to Dean they could not have reached London before 1716. In 1743, Smith wrote in a letter that he had been in Handel's service for 24 years. Dean, Winton (2006). Handel's Operas, 1726–1741. The Boydell Press. Archived from the original on 26 September 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2006.
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Andrew Pink. ‘Solomon, Susanna and Moses : locating Handel's anonymous librettist’. Eighteenth Century Music. Volume 12 / Issue 02 (September 2015) pp. 211-222.; accessed 14 October 2014

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"Royal Academy of Music to 'decolonise' collection as composer linked to slave trade". Classic FM. Archived from the original on 26 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.

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"Handel" entry in Collins English Dictionary gives the common variant "George Frederick" (used in his will and on his funeral monument) alongside the pronunciation of his last name. The spelling "Frideric" is used on his 1727 application for British citizenship.

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Burrows 2007 Burrows, Donald (2007). "Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12192. Retrieved 10 January 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Hicks 2013 Hicks, Anthony (2013), "Handel, George Frideric", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40060, ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0, archived from the original on 10 January 2022, retrieved 10 January 2022
Adams & Hofestädt 2005, pp. 144–46. Adams, Aileen K.; Hofestädt, B. (August 2005). "Georg Händel (1622–97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)". Journal of Medical Biography. 13 (3): 142–49. doi:10.1177/096777200501300308. PMID 16059526. S2CID 208323027.
Adams & Hofestädt 2005, p. 144. Adams, Aileen K.; Hofestädt, B. (August 2005). "Georg Händel (1622–97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)". Journal of Medical Biography. 13 (3): 142–49. doi:10.1177/096777200501300308. PMID 16059526. S2CID 208323027.
Adams & Hofestädt 2005, p. 144; Burrows 1994, p. 1. Adams, Aileen K.; Hofestädt, B. (August 2005). "Georg Händel (1622–97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)". Journal of Medical Biography. 13 (3): 142–49. doi:10.1177/096777200501300308. PMID 16059526. S2CID 208323027. Burrows, Donald (1994). Handel. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816470-X.
Adams & Hofestädt 2005, pp. 144–45. Adams, Aileen K.; Hofestädt, B. (August 2005). "Georg Händel (1622–97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)". Journal of Medical Biography. 13 (3): 142–49. doi:10.1177/096777200501300308. PMID 16059526. S2CID 208323027.
Best 1985, pp. 486–89. Best, Terence (November 1985). "Handel's Chamber Music: Sources, Chronology and Authenticity". Early Music. 13 (4): 476–99. doi:10.1093/em/13.4.476. JSTOR 3127226.
Chrissochoidis, I. (2008). Handel Recovering: Fresh Light on His Affairs in 1737. Eighteenth Century Music, 5(2), 237–44. doi:10.1017/S1478570608001504
Hicks 2013. Hicks, Anthony (2013), "Handel, George Frideric", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40060, ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0, archived from the original on 10 January 2022, retrieved 10 January 2022
Michael Cole (1993). "A Handel harpsichord" (PDF). Early Music. XXI (February 1993): 99–110. doi:10.1093/em/XXI.1.99. Archived from the original on 12 December 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022. illus.1 Single-manual harpsichord by William Smith (Bate Collection, University of Oxford)
McGeary, Thomas (November 2009). "Handel as art collector: art, connoisseurship and taste in Hanoverian Britain". Early Music. 37 (4). Oxford University Press: 533–76. doi:10.1093/em/cap107.

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Burrows 1994, pp. 10–11 translating Mattheson 1740, p. 359. Burrows, Donald (1994). Handel. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816470-X. Mattheson, Johann (1740). Grundlage einer Ehren-pforte, woran der tüchtigsten Capellmeister, Componisten, Musikgelehrten, Tonkünstler &c. Leben, Wercke, Verdienste &c. erscheinen sollen. Hamburg: For the author. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
Lang 1966, p. 22 translating Mattheson 1740, p. 93. Lang, Paul Henry (1966). George Frideric Handel. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. LCCN 66011793/MN/r842. Mattheson, Johann (1740). Grundlage einer Ehren-pforte, woran der tüchtigsten Capellmeister, Componisten, Musikgelehrten, Tonkünstler &c. Leben, Wercke, Verdienste &c. erscheinen sollen. Hamburg: For the author. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
Mattheson 1740, pp. 29, 191. Mattheson, Johann (1740). Grundlage einer Ehren-pforte, woran der tüchtigsten Capellmeister, Componisten, Musikgelehrten, Tonkünstler &c. Leben, Wercke, Verdienste &c. erscheinen sollen. Hamburg: For the author. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
Handel, George Freidrich. Schering, Arnold; Soldan, Kurt (eds.). Messiah: Oratorio in Three Parts, HWV 56. Leipzig: C.F. Peters. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

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Ditto, Charles (July–September 1997). "Handel's Musical Clock Music". Fontes Artis Musicae [Wikidata]. 44 (3): 266–280. JSTOR 23508494.

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