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5. Debussy, Claude (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918), a French 
composer, was born in St. Germain-en-Laye and died in Paris. He studied 
at the Paris Conservatoire and as a prize winner went to Rome for 
two years. It was not only Italian music that influenced his work but 
also Oriental music and music by the German composer Wagner and 
poems by the French poets Baudelaire and Verlaine. His early works 
brought forward a fluidity of rhythm and colour quite new to Western 
music.
Debussy’s main works are considered to be his orchestral pieces, 
piano sets and songs. Debussy began to associate his music with visual 
impressions of the East, Spain, landscape, etc. in a sequence of sets of 
short pieces. His last volume of Etudes (1915) interprets similar varieties 
of styles and texture as pianistic exercises and includes pieces that 


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develop irregular form to an extreme. Critics see in it some influence 
of the young Stravinsky.
6. Handel, George Frederick (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) 
was a German-born Baroque composer who is famous for his operas, 
oratorios and concerti grossi. Born as Georg Friedrich Händel in Halle, 
he spent most of his adult life in England, becoming a subject of the 
British crown on 22 January 1727. His most famous works are Messiah, 
an oratorio set to texts from the King James Bible, Water Music and 
Music for the Royal Fireworks. Strongly influenced by the techniques 
of the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the English composer 
Henry Purcell, his music was known to many significant composers who 
came after him, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Handel was born in Halle in 1685, the same year that both Johann 
Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti were born. Handel displayed 
considerable musical talent at an early age; by the age of seven he was 
a skilful performer on the harpsichord and pipe organ, and at nine he 
began to compose music. His first two operas, Almira and Nero, were 
produced in 1705. Two other early operas, Daphne and Florindo, were 
produced in 1708.
His Rodrigo was produced in Florence in 1707, and his Agrippina 
at Venice in 1709. Agrippina, which ran for an unprecedented 
27 performances, showed remarkable maturity and established his 
reputation as an opera composer.
In 1710, Handel became Kapellmeister to George, Elector of Hannover, 
who would soon be King George I of Great Britain. He visited Anna 
Maria Luisa de’ Medici on his way to London in 1710, where he settled 
permanently in 1712, receiving a yearly income of £200 from Queen 
Anne.
In 1723, Handel moved into a newly built house in 25 Brook Street, 
London, which he rented until his death in 1759, 36 years later. This 
house is now the Handel House Museum, a restored Georgian house open 
to the public with an events programme of Baroque music.
Handel had a long association with the Royal Opera House at Covent 
Garden, where many of his Italian operas were premiered.
Handel’s Messiah was first performed in New Music Hall in 
Fishamble Street, Dublin on 13 April 1742, with 26 boys and five men 
from the combined choirs of St. Patrick’s and Christ Church cathedrals 

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