In 1710 he went to Italy and this experience impressed the definitive seal on his training. Otherwise, the central voice is developed as a bass on a pattern. The numerous instrumental pieces mostly adopt the Italian style. In Hamburg he wrote four operas but only the first one survives, “ Almira” from 1705, where we find “ Bassi ostinati”, used in the main voice of the Arias, more frequently than in subsequent operas. Giovanni” in 1704. In this composition, Händel took the first step in the direction of an oratorial work in which the links with the liturgy were no longer so strong and evident. Here, in fact, we do not find “ Corali” but accompanied” Recitativi secchi” and operatic style Arias. We find no trace of the “ Cantus firmus” that distinguishes the church cantatas, but Händel follows a compositional line that will lead directly to the musical form of the “ Opera”. The defining event of this period was the decision to abandon law studies and go to Hamburg, an important center for the production of secular music, where he worked as a violinist and harpsichordist at the Hamburg opera. The first important contribution to church music was the “ Passione secondo S. Highly regarded from an early age, at 17 he obtained his first job as an organist of the Halle Cathedral. From the beginning he remained faithful to the simple Italian use of counterpoint. Like his second teacher, he acquired great mastery of the art of composing by copying works by the great German and, especially, Italian musicians. Händel continued to quote Zachow‘s music within his compositions, using above all the instrumental timbre choices. Zachow, a German composer, thanks to whom he learned to play the violin, the organ, the harpsichord, the oboe and learned solid bases of counterpoint as well as mastering the art of the Italian “ doppia fuga“.Īfter Zachow‘s death in 1712, Händel became a benefactor of his family, out of gratitude for his teaching, and went under the guidance of Bach himself.
He undertook the study of music from 1696 under the guidance of F. Born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti he, unlike the first one, did not come from a family of musicians, on the contrary he embarked on this career against the wishes of his father.
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