This Is My Favorite for Handel ..." George Frederic Handel , Sarabande "
They Said About Him :
Beethoven : "Handel was the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head, and kneel before his tomb."
King George III called Him "the Shakespeare of Music."
George Bernard Shaw: "Handel is not a mere composer in England: he is an institution. What is more, he is a sacred institution."
Samuel Butler: "Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him."
Leigh Hunt : "Handel was the Jupiter of music;... his hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word 'Wonderful', as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth, to make love admidst nymphs and shepherds (for the beauties of all religions find room within his breast), his strains drip milk and honey, and his love is the youthfulness of the Golden Age."
Wolfgang Mozart : "Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt."
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