Handel
George Frideric Handel was born in Halle, Germany on February 23, 1685. Early in his life Handel began to study music. He started studying music in 1694 against his father’s wishes. “From his very childhood Handel had discovered such a strong propensity to music, that his father, who always intended him for the study of Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed. Perceiving that this inclination still increased, he took every method to oppose it. He strictly forbad him to meddle with any musical instrument; nothing of that kind was suffered to remain in the house, nor was he ever permitted to go to any other, where such kind of furniture was in use. All this caution and art, instead of restraining, did but augment his passion. He had found means to get a little clavichord privately convey’d to a room at the top of the house (Mainwaring, 12-13).” On one of Handel’s family visits to Saxe-Weissenfels court, where Handel’s half-brother Karl, who is 36 years older than him, held the position of Valet de chambre and his father the position of court surgeon, “Handels organ playing attracted the attention of the duke, who urged Handel’s father to allow him to study music as well as law (Dean and Hicks
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