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Johann Sebastian Bach and Handel were born in the same year. They were the greatest composers of their time, but they never met. Handel changed his name to George Frideric Handel when he became British ; he removed the dots above the "a" and changed the spelling of Georg and Friedrich.

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Handel wrote many operas and oratorios and by them became very famous. He took many trips, including to Italy where he learned a lot about composition. Bach never left central Germany, and most of the time he was a church musician who was not well known by the general public. Handel wrote over 42 operas. Later he wrote oratorios. His most famous oratorio is the Messiah.

He wrote anthems , chamber music and orchestral music including the Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Handel was born in Halle in the northeast of Germany, in today's Saxony-Anhalt.