17 George Frideric Handel Quotes

George Frideric Handel quotes

1. Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!

2. I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.

3. I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.

4. You have taken far too much trouble over your opera. Here in England that is mere waste of time. What the English like is something that they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.

5. It is much too good for them,they don't know what to do with it.His comment on 'borrowing' others music.

6. Er ist der Meister von uns allen!

7. Handel ist der unerreichte Meister aller Meister. Gehen Sie und lernen Sie von ihm, wie gewaltige Wirkungen mit einfachen Mitteln zu erreichen ist.

8. His hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word 'Wonderful,' as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth, to make love amidst nymphs and shepherds (for the beauties of all religions found room within his breast), his strains drop milk and honey, and his love is the youthfulness of the Golden Age.

9. Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.

10. Handel paralysed music in England for generations and they have not yet quite got over him.

11. Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

1. Learn all there is to learn, and then choose your own path.

2. It pleased the Almighty, to whose great will Holy Will I submit myself with Christian submission.

3. I thought I saw the face of God.

4. What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us?

5. I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me.

6. “I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wished to make them better.”