Handel

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proper noun

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

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Meanings

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 first performance in 1742.

    2014 April 17, Tom Service, “Handel's Messiah: the sound of our better selves”, in The Guardian

Origin

From a German surname.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

Handel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Handel

MLA

“Handel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Handel. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Handel,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Handel.

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