handel, george frideric

Photographs, illustrations, cartoons, and text combine to examine the life and accomplishments of seventeenth-century German composer George Frideric Handel, creator of the oratorio "Messiah.".

An illustration adaptation of the life of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel.

Tells interesting stories about the composer as a child and describes some of his achievements as an adult when he became the favorite musician of King George I and King George II of England.

Ten-year-old Jamie O'Flaherty, in a Dublin jail for stealing, gets a chance to redeem himself, when he is bailed out by composer George Frideric Handel who needs Jamie to sing in the first performance of "Messiah" in 1742.

A biography of the composer of more than forty operas, nineteen oratorios, including the famous "Messiah," and hundreds of other vocal and instrumental works.

An illustration introduction to the life of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel.

A man who would later compose some of the world's most beautiful music is shown as a stubborn little boy with a mind of his own.

In eighteenth-century London, a young orphan who sings like an angel but is unable to speak is befriended by the great composer, George Frederick Handel, and finds his way home.