Music Of The Great Composers --

Georg Friedrich Handel-Part 2 Stolen Practice Hours Handel was born in Halle on February 23, 1684, to Doctor Handel, then 63 years old, barber, surgeon in ordinary and valet-de-chambre to Prince Augustus of Saxony. Georg Friedrich was born a musician and scarcely waited for his emancipation from the nursery to begin the practice of his art. His earliest delight was to play with toy instruments, drums, trumpets, horns and flutes. For a time the old surgeon..