Handel

A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.

Proper noun

  1. A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.
    • Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its...

Origin

From a German surname.

Derived

Handelesque Handelian