Georg Frederic Handel Essay

Georg Frederic Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Halle, Germany and died on April 14, 1759 in London, England. Early in his life when he was seven years old Georg Ferderic Handel has demonstrated the ability to played music but his father disallow. His father want to take him to study law. One day His father who served and let him to go to the court of Saxe-Weissenfels and Handel performance in the Organ to shown and make everyone surprised with his performed including to the Duke Johann Adolf I after that his father to allow him to study music. Handel has to make fast develop under the instruction with the organist in the country who support and help him to study many style. Handel went to Hamburg, Germany in 1702 to develop for his
musical knowledge and at the same time he was interested in the opera music and study it seriously. Handel intent to study Italian opera so in 1705 he traveled to Italy and then Handel went to many country for studies about opera such as Venice and Rome. (Dean, 1980) Georg Frederic Handel can develop his skill when he went to Italy and to help his music career better. In Italy he was see the many musical forms, including Sonata Form, Concertos Form, Cantata and also Oratorio. Handel was to see many famous Italian composers and they give knowledge to support for his inspiration to develop his musical style. In Italy Handel has to more prepare his composition to professional musician. (Dean, 1980) Handel went to travel in London in 1707 when he 22 years old he has made more contract with the high personal to make one’s way up to him including Queen Anne. In 1711 Handel has fist music career in London at the new opera house it was the most important for him. Handel composing music every week and some time he composing every day to performance support the king, He was music director, conductor and composer in there. In London he work and success for his composer at Royal Academy in many year because Royal Academy it was the famous music center in that time.
After that time he has problem between he and Bonocini at Royal Academy. Handel’s the famous musician in that time everyone know him and come to support for his performance but he did not to expand for his music form, he still to do his characteristic style on his work and his later year his health start to bad because he has problem in his eyes. After that he died at his home in London in 1759. For the trumpet work of Handel’s not important but he’s composed music for trumpet in D and trumpet in C, in the score mostly used two or three trumpet, and for four trumpet he often only one time. He’s mostly used homophonic in his trumpet work and sometime millionaire employ him to perform full orchestra, but there’s the only work for trumpet (Tarr, 1988) Handel has music for voice and trumpet about sixteen piece. Max Morley call that piece in his article “The Trumpet Arias in the Oratorios of Georg Frederic Handel.” In the trumpet work Morley order solo voice or more trumpet playing that all piece and some time the trumpet is not play in every part of music piece and order “the trumpet part must be recognizable as obbligato to the voice, not just complementary to the orchestra fabric.” Handel has two famous piece of trumpet aria it call “The Trumpet Shall Sound” form Messiah and “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson. (Morley,
1980)