Handel at his most jubilant here, hymning the glories of Georgian England in his half-official role as composer laureate: the four anthems written for George II's coronation in 1727 and the Music for ...

The Essay Music in Its Time Music in Its Time - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks The spectacular state-of-the-art first performance of Handel's Royal Fireworks. 15 mins ...

Baroque music and silent movies? Perhaps an unexpected combination, but not one that seems bizarre. How about silent movies and Shakespeare? The Bard without speech seems almost a contradiction in ...

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Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's 'Hallelujah' chorus or his Music for the Royal Fireworks. Life and Music Handel was born in ...

And so Handel's Music For The Royal Fireworks was born. Not long after, in the 19th Century, the ice cream cone-shaped shell which hurls a firework higher into the sky was invented in Italy.