Handel died in London on April 14, 1759; the last musical
performance he heard, on April 6, was of his own Messiah. Throughout his life
Handel avoided the strict techniques of his exact contemporary Johann Sebastian
Bach and achieved his effects through the simplest of means, trusting always his
own natural musicianship. The music of both composers, however, sums up the age
in which they lived. After them, opera took a different path; the favorite
baroque genres…
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