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The Great and Good Mr Handel

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by STANLEY SADIE
Though George Frideric Handel came from Halle in what is now East Germany, he regarded
England as his home, and when he died in 1759 he was buried among the greatest of his adopted compatriots in Westminster Abbey.
The first of three programmes celebrating the life and work of the composer who was bom 300 years ago.
Narrator John Rowe with Carl Duering as Handel and WILLIAM EEDLE , NIGEL GRAHAM , GARARD GREEN and JOHN RYE Producer ALAN HAYDOCK Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
George Frideric Handel
Narrator:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Carl Duering
Unknown:
William Eedle
Unknown:
Nigel Graham
Source: Radio Times

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