Handel was a musical dramatist of the first rank. In his approximately 30 oratorios and 40 operas, he masterfully brought his characters to life through music. The opera "Acis and Galatea" and the secular oratorio "Semele" tell richly textured mythological love stories, both ending tragically.
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The music blends lyricism, humor, and tragedy—typical of Handel. A particular highlight is his arrangement of the famous aria "Where'er you walk" for choir and orchestra.
For Mendelssohn, Handel was a role model in matters of oratorio composition, choral writing, and engagement with Baroque music.
In a letter to his sister Fanny, Mendelssohn writes: "How great Handel is!" He is, along with Bach, the greatest musician who ever lived." Robert Schumann judged Mendelssohn's Psalm cantata "As the deer pants for streams of water" to be "the highest level that Mendelssohn as a church composer, indeed that modern church music in general, has reached."
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