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.
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.".
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.
