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Handel’s German boss fired the composer for spending all his time in London. When they met again, it was... rather awkward.
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The first thing George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ‘Messiah’ did was to set a hundred and forty-two prisoners free.
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Lost for seventeen centuries, caught up in a war, and used as a pedestal for a plant pot, this is the world’s oldest surviving song.
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A Scottish widow’s lullaby for her fatherless child inspired his music, but Brahms’s message struck closer to home.
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A Dubliner with a roving eye and a gift for melody, John Field challenged Europe’s pianists to demand more of themselves.
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William is Cumbria’s very own blend of Robin Hood and William Tell - with a happy ending, too.