George Frideric Handel

(1685-1759)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 DNB: Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759), composer LBT ID: GeHande1759 VIAF ID: 5126950 LOC ID: n79129204	B/BAP: 1685-01-23 DIED: 1759-04-14
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German composer who settled in England in 1712 where he composed oratorios, among them The Messiah, first produced in Dublin in 1742.
REFERENCES TO George Frideric Handel: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 4 August 1802 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Sydney Owenson to Alicia Le Fanu, 29 August 1811 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 4 February 1816 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE WORTHIES OF THE GEORGIAN AGE. Verse 2: p. 36a p. 36a Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 5 January 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Vincent Novello, [25 January 1825] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 69 “Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries” in New Monthly Magazine NS 22 (January 1828) 84-96 Found 1: ¶ 39 Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [24 May 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 855a Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XXI. Found 1: ¶ 63 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1808 Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Ch. XX. 1815-1816 Ch. XXV. 1820-1821 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 21 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter XVII Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter XXXVI Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 11 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 1: ¶ 17 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XII. Found 1: ¶ 69 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1825 Letters: 1830 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1834 Found 1: ¶ 1