The Composer Whose Greatest Glory Came From Ruin
By 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled London with lavish Italian operas now faced mounting debts, failing...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Haggai 1:15b-2:9.
By 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled London with lavish Italian operas now faced mounting debts, failing health, and empty concert halls. A stroke had partially paralyzed his right hand four years earlier. Critics wrote him off as a relic. Those who remembered his former triumphs at the King's Theatre shook their heads — the great Handel was finished.…
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