Happy 330th birthday to George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) – or is it George Frederick Handel, or Georg Friedrich Häendel? Whatever you call him, he’s certainly one of the greatest Baroque Era ...

Hallelujah! 2009 marks the 250th anniversary of Georg Friedrich Handel's death. In the UK, which has produced perhaps five musical geniuses in 350 years, the domicile of this German giant in London ...

George Friedrich Handel was a German-born British Baroque composer 1888: The earliest known musical recording is made. The piece, Georg Friedrich Handel's Israel in Egypt, is recorded on a paraffin ...

Catherine Bott explores Georg Friedrich Handel's controversial and frequent musical 'borrowings', which in today's world of music copyright would likely be condemned as plagiarism.

Now that the daft notion of twinning Dublin with Beijing seems to have gone away, here's a much better idea for the wise men and women of Dublin Corporation to consider. Why not twin Dublin with Halle ...

The year is 1709. The place is Rome. Two musical heavyweights are pitted against one another in a trial of skill... Andrew Manze explores the extraordinary contest which took place between two of the ...