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    Handel: 15 facts about the great composer

    George Frederick Handel

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    His first work in the English language might not be his most well-known, but during his lifetime it was Handel's most popular work by some distance. It even received the honour of a little re-write by none other than Mozart in 1788. Well, if someone has to tinker with it, it may as well be Mozart…

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