Handel on the Web

Recent additions are identified by the symbol.

Websites Dedicated to Handel:

Handel with care (en français)

Teri Noel Towe's "George Frideric Handel Page"

Osvaldo Castro's Georg Friedrich Händel

(in Spanish)

"Haendel_opera" (in Spanish)
Le Site de Handel (en français)
haendel.it (in Italian)
Haendelmania (in Italian)
Händel-Haus Halle's Handel pages
Portland Handel Society (added 26 November 2007)

Societies/Institutes:

The American Handel Society

Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft (Halle, Germany)
- Große Nikolaistraße 5
  D-06108 Halle
  GERMANY
  Tel.: ++49 (0) 345/50090223
  Fax: ++49 (0) 345/50090416
  E-Mail:
  - haendel@halle.de
  - Landgraf@musik.uni-halle.de
Göttinger-Händel-Gesellschaft (Göttingen, Germany)
- Hainholzweg 3-5
  37085 Göttingen
  GERMANY
  Telephone: +49 (551) 5 67 00
  FAX: + 49 (551) 4 53 95
  E-mail : info@haendel.org
Händel-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany)
- Dr. Peter Overbeck
  Händel-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe e.V.
  Der Vorsitzende
  c/o Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
  Am Schloss Gottesaue 7
  76131 Karlsruhe
  Tel.: 0721/6629-104 / Fax: -105
  E-Mail: Haendel-KA@web.de
The Handel Institute (Great Britain)
The Czech Handel Society
- Na Maninách 11/795
  170 00 Praha (Prague) 7
  CZECH REPUBLIC
  Tel/Fax: +420-(0)2-66712203
  E-mail : info@haendel.cz
London Handel Society -- sponsors the London Handel Festival (See below.)
- Horton House
  8 Ditton Street
  Ilminster
  Somerset TA19 0BQ
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Tel/Fax: +44 01460 53500
  E-mail: mail@london-handel-festival.com
Cambridge Handel Opera Group -- formed in 1985; performances staged of Rodelinda (1985), Flavio (1987), Floridante (1989), Amadigi (1991), Berenice (1993), Partenope (1995), Alcina (1997), Admeto (1999), and Orlando (2001), Serse (2003), Tamerlano (2005), Imeneo (2007)
- Elisabeth Fleming, Company Manager
  c/o Dr A. V. Jones
  Selwyn College
  CAMBRIDGE, CB3 9DQ
  Tel: +44 01954 210 810
  Fax: +44 01223 335 837
  E-mail: ekf20@cam.ac.uk
Haendels Neue Generation e.V. - an international society that supports the Händel Wettbewerb Halle (Haendel competition) in Halle/Saale: "The association is meant to support and cultivate the music, culture and ideas of the famous musician Georg Friedrich Haendel." For the 6-12 June 2001 competition (traverso and modern flute), the first prize-winners will perform at the 50th Händel Festival prize-winners concert in Freylinghausen Hall of Francke Foundations on June 12, 2001.
E-mail: haendelsneuegeneration@gmx.de
Nederlandse Händelvereniging

Handel Society of Dartmouth College -- Founded in 1807. Devoted to the performance of choral-orchestral major works. Members of the Society believed the grand choruses by Handel exemplified their goals and thus adopted Handel's name for their group.
- Music Director/Conductor: Professor Melinda O'Neal
  Hopkins Center
  Dartmouth College
  Hanover, NH 03755-3599
  Phone: 603-646-2743
  Fax: 603-646-2551
  E-mail: melinda.oneal@dartmouth.edu
The Deal and Walmer Handelian Society -- Founded in 1946.
Handel Society of Music
Handel Choir of Baltimore -- a community-based oratorio society

Handel Festivals & Conferences

The Maryland Handel Festival -- Following the performance of Jephtha in May 2001, the Maryland Handel Festival closes its doors...

Halle Handel Festival : (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
- For more information, contact:
  - Direktion der Händel-Festspiele im Händel-Haus
    Große Nikolaistraße 5
    D-06108 Halle, Germany
    Tel.: +49 (0) 3 45 / 50 09 02 22
    FAX: +49 (0) 3 45 / 50 09 04 16
    E-Mail: haendel@halle.de
- Georg Friedrich Händel Halle - new concert hall
Göttingen Handel Festival (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
- For more information, contact:
  - Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen
    Göttinger Händel-Gesellschaft e.V.
    Hainholzweg 3-5
    D-37085 Göttingen, Germany
    Telephone: +49 (551) 5 67 00
    FAX: + 49 (551) 4 53 95
    E-mail: (1) GoettingerHaendel-Gesellschaft@t-online.de (2) info@haendel.org

Karlsruhe Handel Festival (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
- For more information, contact:
  - Händel-Festspiele des Badischen Staatstheaters Karlsruhe
    Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
    Baumeisterstr. 11
    D-76137 Karlsruhe, Germany
    Telephone: (0721) 3557-0
    FAX: (0721) 373223
    E-mail: (1) kartenverkauf@bstaatstheater.bwl.de
    (2) pressestelle@bstaatstheater.bwl.de

Internationale Händel-Akademie Karlsruhe -- an annual performance workshop and symposium

London Handel Festival -- founded by Denys Darlow in 1978. Musical Directors: Denys Darlow & Laurence Cummings; Associate Director: Adrian Butterfield.

265 Croxted Road
London SE21 8NN
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 20-8761-3311 or +44 20-8761-6981
Fax: +44 20-8761-0047
E-mail: londonhandelfestival.lhs@virgin.net

Online Music Magazin's Festspiele

Göttingen, Halle, & Karlsruhe

Denver Handel Festival (April - May) - held in 2000, 2001, 2004, and 2005.

Handel Week Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois (February)

Dublin (Ireland) Handel Festival

Handel Exhibitions

Princeton University's "Il caro Sassone : George Frideric Handel at Princeton" (Oct. 4, 1999 - Jan. 9, 2000)

Biographical Information:

Classical Music Pages' George Frideric Handel -- from "The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music"

The "Case" of George Frideric Handel -- by William A. Frosch, M.D.

Sylve Åkessons : Georg Friedrich Händel (Svensk!)

Klassik Online's Handel: auf deutsch

Chronologies:

At gfhandel.org

Michael Sciortino's Georg Friedrich Handel chronology

Händel-Haus Halle chronology (auf deutsch)

Collected Pictures of Handel

Händel-Haus Halle's portrait collection.

An older portrait of Handel. (Contributed by Thomas Schöttl)
Teri Noel Towe's "The Portraits of George Frideric Handel"
Classical Music Pages' "Handel Picture Gallery"

National Portrait Gallery, London:
- Handel portraits at the NPG

Handel Museums

London Handel House Museum:
- Official website
- gfhandel.org's Handel House page
- Terri Towe's "The Handel House"

Händel-Haus Halle

"G.F. Handel: A Guide through his Native Town" (in English) -- published by the "Initiative für Halle und den Saalkreis" (IfHaS) as a Handel guide to Halle. It costs DM 5.- For more information, e-mail kontakt@ifhas.de

Catalogs / Editions of Handel's Works:

Hallische-Händel-Ausgabe (HHA; Halle Handel Edition; Halle, Germany)
- Hallische Händel-Ausgabe
  c/o Händel-Haus
  Große Nikolaistraße 5
  D-06108 Halle
  GERMANY
- Tel.: ++49 (0) 345/50090318 or ++49 (0) 345/50090319
- Fax: ++49 (0) 345/50090416
- E-Mail: haendel@halle.de or Landgraf@musik.uni-halle.de
Bärenreiter HHA: (1) and (2)
gfhandel.org's Compositions by Genre
Robert Poliquin's "catalogue des oeuvres HWV"

Collections:

The Jacob Coopersmith Collection of Handeliana (University of Maryland at College Park Libraries)
Indiana University's Julius Herford Collection - Handel
McGill University's David Edelberg/Handel Collection - a searchable database of Edelberg's large collection of Handel sound recordings
Princeton University's James S. Hall Collection of Handel
Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum -- The Handel collection is an internationally important collection of material relating to Handel and his contemporaries, including manuscripts, printed books and music, libretti, paintings and engravings, memorabilia, art works and ephemera. The materials were collected by Gerald Coke over a period of 60 years and left by his widow to the Coram Foundation, a childcare charity which is the successor of the 18th century Foundling Hospital, of which Handel was a Governor and benefactor.
- Katie Hawks shares her impressions about The Foundling Museum

Handel Literature:

Click here.

Handel Listserve / Discussion Groups:

Yahoo! Groups:
- Handel-L (successor to the University of Maryland HANDEL-L listserve)
- HandelAndHisWorld
- BachAndHandelResearchResources
- Handel Forever (in Italian)
Yahoo! Clubs (including Chat Rooms)
George Frideric Handel Discussion Port

Handel's "Messiah":

gfhandel.org's concert calendar
gfhandel.org's Messiah Libretto

Henley Denmead's Messiah

The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums: Messiah MS in Beethoven's Hand

Messiah: Arranged by WA Mozart

Patrick Findlay's Handel's Messiah Through the Centuries

Teri Noel Towe's "An 1852 Pamphlet on Messiah"
Christian History Institute's APRIL 13, 1742 HALLELUJAH!
Mormon Tabernacle Choir's recording of Messiah

Book: Handel's Messiah; The Story Behind the Greatest Music Ever Sung by C. Curtis Wood
Roy Greenhill's Messiah Wordbook
Inkpot's Messiah
Independence, Missouri's Messiah
"Messiah in other Hands" by Donald Burrows

Tom Lumb's "Standing for the Hallelujah Chorus"
John Moore's Messiah page

Tim Cordell's Messiah
Antipas' Messiah MIDI website

Logos Resource Pages' Messiah

Classical Music Pages' Messiah
"Happy Birthday Händel" - Messiah Chorus Sing-Along (Halle, Germany)
Handel's Messiah - A Commemoration (as related by Dr. Charles Burney). Script by Kerry S. Grant, Eugene Enrico, and James Yoch Produced by Eugene Enrico and William Crane. Early Music Television from The University of Oklahoma Color, VHS videocassette, 28:30 minutes
"Seattle Sings Messiah" -- it appears this annual event has been discontinued.
Redwod Empire's "Sing-Along Messiah" (an annual sing-along performance)
Chester County Christian Chorale's http://www.messiah-singalong.org
The NoteWorthy Composer Scriptorium's "The Messiah Project" -- Noteworthy Composer is is a notation processor. A free player is available that plays *.nwc files. "The Messiah Project" is 3 years in the making.
Jim Taylor's
- Rehearsal CDs for learning the Messiah choruses
- Messiah Scores -- in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Handel's Messiah -- The National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin, Ireland
NotePerfect's "Messiah Training CDs"

Various Works by Handel:

Joel Kasow's "Handel operas: new releases"

Anthony Hicks's Mirth, Melancholy and Moderation (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

Anthony Hicks's Rinaldo
Suzanne Aspden's "The Rinaldo story"
Tim Cordell's Handel operas
Opera Glass': George Frideric Handel (by Rick Bogart)
Giulio Cesare synopsis
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Halifax Choral Society's Judas Maccabaeus
Anthony Hicks's Water Music

Libretti

Handel Home Page's Messiah libretto
Stanford University -- scroll down to "Haendel"

Musical Scores & Sheet Music of Handel's Works:

University Music Editions Handel "Complete Works" (Chrysander Edition) - microfiche reprint
Various Dover scores (you will need to scroll down the page to find Handel)
Search the Pepper Music Network
Bärenreiter's (http://www.baerenreiter.com/)
- Complete Halle Handel Edition
- Handel Scores: Once you've accessed the Bärenreiter website's welcome page, from the composer/author pull-down, select "Händel". Alternativey, you may wish to perform a "Detailed Search" instead.
Sunhawk Corporation (once you're there, you will need to "search" for Handel)
Music-Scores.com's Handel
SheetMusicPlus.com's Handel
Musicroom.com's Handel
- Musicroom's Novello Handel Edition
Breitkopf & Härtel Musikverlag (Once there, "search" for Handel)
Editions Peters
Sheetmusicsuperstore.com (Search "All categories" for "Handel")
JW Pepper.com. (Search for Handel)
Werner Icking Music Archive: Handel
Boosey & Hawkes Shop (search for Handel)
Music Exchange, Ltd. (search for Handel)
SheetMusicNow.com (search for Handel)
MuseData's Handel scores [MuseData is a project of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University].
ActiveMusician.com's Handel
Schubertline's Handel
Luc Dupuis' transcribed concerti for a one-manual organ. (Hosted by SibeliusMusic.com. Requires installation of Sibelius Scorch & Scorch ActiveX Plugin to view score and listen to music.)
Scrolls from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music -- scroll down to Handel
Great Scores Handel page
Chester-Novello -- includes G. Schirmer sheet music

Performances of Handel's Works

gfhandel.org's concert calendar
Saul

Susanna
'Too Hot to Handel' -- a jazzy, soulful reinterpretation of Handel's Messiah.

Recording Labels' Handel Pages:

Chandos

Harmonia Mundi (Search for "Handel")

Hyperion Records Ltd.

Newport Classic

Decca/Philips Digital Classics

(Search for "Handel")

K&K Verlaganstalt : Edition Maulbronn Monastary Oratorios

Junger Kantorei & Barockorchester Frankfurt Handel discography (i.e., Saul, Athalia, Il Trionfo del Tempo e della Verità, Deborah)

Vox Music Group

Thirteen Colonies Press' "Handel: English Country Dances"

Retailers' Handel Pages:

Search H&B Recordings Direct's George Frideric Handel
Search Statue.com for Handel's bust
Qualiton's (Distributor) Handel
"Classical Kids" recording of Hallelujah Handel! -- "a recording devoted to the life and music of Handel, told through the eyes of a child."
ArkivMusic's Handel

Recording Recommendations:

ClassicalNet's Handel Basic Repertoire

Handel for a desert island

Brad Leissa's selections
David Vickers's selections
Philippe Gelinaud's selections

Videos

NOTE: Most countries around the World use one of three main television broadcast standards: NTSC, PAL or SECAM. These apply to both VHS and DVD. Hence, videos/DVD from one region may not be viewable from another region.

NTSC: USA, many Asian countries (including Japan) - 525 lines/frame
PAL: Europe (with some exceptions) - 625 lines/frame
SECAM: France, Russia (and others) - 625 lines/frame (unlike PAL, it transmits color sequentially)

To complicate things further, there are 8 DVD coding regions:

U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories
Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East (including Egypt)
Southeast Asia and East Asia (including Hong Kong)
Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean
Eastern Europe (Former Soviet Union), Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia
China
Reserved
Special international venues (airplanes, cruise ships, etc.)

(See the map at http://www.robertsdvd.com/world.html
Also visit http://www.dvdtalk.com/rce.html)

"The Great Mr. Handel" - A film produced in 1942 by Lord Rank’s G.H.W. Productions Ltd.
- Vision Video (VHS/NTSC format)
- Connoisseur Video (VHS/PAL format) - Available at amazon.co.uk (image)
"Water Music" - DVD (formatted for worldwide use) featuring the English Bach Festival Orchestra and The English Bach Festival Dancers. (47 minutes)
Glyndebourne store. (Enter "Shop", then select "Glyndebourne Video Gallery". Videos in VHS/PAL format).
- Theodora
- Rodelinda
- "Opera/Sound Bites" (tape cassettes)
  - (1) Rodelinda, presented by Jancis Robinson
    Theodora, presented by James Naughtie.
    Texts by Antony Peattie
  - (2) Guilio Cesare, presented by Timothy West. Text by Anthony Hicks
    Xerxes, presented by Patricia Hodge. Text by Jonathan Keates
Devine Entertainment Corporation's Handel's Last Chance
Kulturvideo (various Handel videos in NTSC format, such as Theodora, Agrippina, Xerxes, and Messiah)
"A Night with Handel" - A DVD (Region 2 encoding) with selected Italian arias performed by notable Handelian singers, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and presented by Handel biographer Jonathan Keates. It can be purchased on-line at http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CYOA/ref=sr_aps_dvd_1_1/026-7102061-6986002
Bullfrog Films' The Sorceress : Kiri Te Kanawa
"George Frideric Handel: Honour, Profit & Pleasure" (1986) - IMDb

Sound files (e.g., MIDI)

Classical MIDI Archives - Handel
Michael Sciortino's "The Classical Music MIDI Pages" - Handel
Midiworld's Händel Page
Barockstadt's Handel

Miscellaneous Handel Web Information:

Tim Smith's Georg Friedrich Handel
Handel - Catch the Thief!
The Handel Organ at St Lawrence, Little Stanmore
Internet Public Library's: George Frideric Handel
A. Bender's George Friedrich Händel
R.B. Chatwin's Handel and the Clarinet
Häendel (en français)
Donald Burrows' "Handel's first Foundling Hospital concert"
Donald Burrows' "Christmas with Bach and Handel"
George Frideric Handel

In Touch Ministries: George Frideric Handel

Classical Musicians Dictionary's George Frideric Handel
Maitreya Sangha's "George Hendel (sic) Memorial"

Classical is Cool! 's Handel

The Organ Connection's Handel
Handel

Devine Entertainment Corporation's Handel

Klassika's Händel

Klassiknetz's Georg Friedrich Händel
Studyworld's Handel
Volume IV of Charles Burney's "A General History of Music" -- Handel is frequently mentioned in this volume.

Baroque On! -- a music education project jointly produced by the ABC, Musica Viva In Schools, English Baroque ensemble Florilegium and The British Council. The project explores Baroque musical style by leading you through a series of activities based on two movements from Handel's Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No.5 in D Major. To enjoy this site, I hope you have a high speed internet connection! (You will need to install some software to fully appreciate this site.)
University College Cork's Handel
Georg Friedrich Händel-Chor, Luzern
Handel at Adlington Hall
Musical Times: 1901 obituary of Kark Franz Friedrich Chrysander
- Chrysander (with Max Seiffert's assistance and under the auspices of the German Handel Society) was responsible for the 100+ volume complete edition of Handel's works.
Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Oberschule (Berlin)
The Masque Affect -- A musical by d'masque productions inc.
Here Of A Sunday Morning's (HOASM) Handel.
John Wall's NewOlde.com Handel discography page
Jean-Claude Brenac's Handel page

Last updated: 26 November 2007

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