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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

Kate Molleson

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Composer of the Week: Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Episode 5: 1749

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Episode 5: 1749

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BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759), 1749

Donald Macleod explores Handel's life in 1749, year of his Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Donald Macleod introduces Handel's life in 1749, year of his Music for the Royal Fireworks.

By 1749, Handel had assumed the position of supreme impresario on the London stage. In this last exploration of a "year in the life" of the composer, presenter Donald Macleod explores the story behind Handel's Music For The Royal Fireworks - with an extract played in Leopold Stokowski's full orchestral arrangement - and introduces a rarity: Handel's incidental music to Tobias Smollett's play "Alceste".

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Donald Macleod explores the music of Handel through five key 'years in the life'.

Donald Macleod explores the music of Handel through five key 'years in the life' of the composer: 1707, 1717, 1725, 1739 and 1749

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