"Er ist der Meister von uns allen!"
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Haydn, at a performance of Messiah. Quoted in John Galt George the Third, His Court and Family (1824) p. 34, and in Leopold Schmidt Joseph Haydn (1898) p. 86.
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George Frideric Handel
1685 – 1749
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel, 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.
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