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George Frideric Handel
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“Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Harvard Magazine (December 1862), p. 141.
“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Horatio Townsend An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin (1852) p. 93, citing Laetitia Matilda Hawkins Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs vol. 1 (1822).
“I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James Beattie, letter of May 25, 1780, published in William Forbes An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. (1806) p. 331.
“You have taken far too much trouble over your opera. Here in England that is mere waste of time. What the English like is something that they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard Alexander Streatfeild Handel (2005) p. 195, citing Anton Schmid Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (1854) p. 29
“Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is the righteous Saviour, and he shall speak peace unto the heathen”
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“He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do the nations so furiously rage together: and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hallelujah: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by his blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing, and honour, glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Amen.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Er ist der Meister von uns allen!”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Haydn, at a performance of Messiah. Quoted in John Galt George the Third, His Court and Family (1824) p. 34, and in Leopold Schmidt Joseph Haydn (1898) p. 86.
“Händel ist der unerreichte Meister aller Meister. Gehen Sie und lernen Sie von ihm, wie gewaltige Wirkungen mit einfachen Mitteln zu erreichen ist.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beethoven, quoted by Ignaz von Seyfried. Published in Friedrich Kerst Beethoven der Mann und der Künstler, wie in seinen Eigenen Words enthüllt no. 111 ; Friedrich Kerst (trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel) Beethoven, the Man…
“Händel ist der größte Komponist, der je lebte. Ich würde meine Kopfbedeckung abnehmen und auf seinem Grab knien.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beethoven, speaking to J. A. Stumpff in the autumn of 1823. Published in Friedrich Kerst Beethoven der Mann und der Künstler, wie in seinen Eigenen Words enthüllt no. 112 ; Friedrich Kerst (trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel)…
“Händel ist der Größte und Fähigste aller Komponisten; von ihm kann ich immer noch lernen.”
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Recorded in: Beethoven on his deathbed, speaking to Gerhard von Breuning. Published in Friedrich Kerst Beethoven der Mann und der Künstler, wie in seinen Eigenen Words enthüllt no. 111 ; Friedrich Kerst (trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel…
“His hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word "Wonderful," as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth, to make love amidst nymphs and shepherds (for the beauties of all religions found room within his breast), his strains drop milk and honey, and his love is the youthfulness of the Golden Age.”
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Recorded in: Leigh Hunt Table-Talk (1851) pp. 147-8.
“Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Samuel Butler Notebooks (2004) p. 153.
“Handel paralysed music in England for generations and they have not yet quite got over him.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Frederick Delius, letter to Ethel Smyth, February 17, 1909; Lionel Carley Delius: A Life in Letters vol. 2 (1988) p. 9.
“Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Bernard Shaw in Ainslee's Magazine, May 1913.