George Frideric Handel, certainly one of the founding fathers of music, introduced new types of music and affected the many composers who followed him. Handel was born on February 23, 1685 in Halle, a town in Germany. He was a very bright man not only was he a prodigy in music, but he also was trained in law. Handel played the organ, violin, harpsichord, and composed songs. His music influenced that of Mozart and maybe even Beethoven. The other famous composer of Handel's time was Bach. They made an attempt to work with each other but they never did. The irony between both Handel and Bach is that they were born in the same year and both died from the same disease. From an early age, Handel began his career in music at an early age playing violin and composing music at age 18 for Hamburg's German Opera in 1....

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