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Handel

Handel proper noun: a surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.

Proper noun

Handel

  1. A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.
    • Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its first performance in 1742.2014 April 17, Tom Service, “Handel's Messiah: the sound of our better selves”, in The Guardian

Origin of Handel

From a German surname.

Words formed from Handel

Questions about Handel

What does Handel mean?
Handel means a surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.
What part of speech is Handel?
Handel is a proper noun.

Words near Handel in the dictionary

  1. handedness
  2. handednesses
  3. handedst
  4. handegg
  5. handeggs
  6. Handel
  7. Handelian
  8. hander
  9. hander-in
  10. handers
  11. handers-in

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