Handel (disambiguation)
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Handel usually refers to George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), a German/British Baroque composer.
Handel may also refer to:
Organisations referring to G. F. Handel
- Handel Choir of Baltimore
- Handel House Museum
- Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis, the catalogue of Handel's works
- Händel-Gesellschaft, a society that produced an edition of the works of George Frideric Handel between 1858 and 1902
- Handel and Haydn Society, an American chorus and period instrument orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts
- Handel Society of New York, a musical organization that presented concert and semi-staged performances of operas and oratorios by George Frideric Handel from 1966-1974
- Handel Music Prize, presented by Halle, Germany, in honor of the composer
Places
- Handel, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada
- Handel Ice Piedmont, Alexander Island, Antarctica
- 3826 Handel, a small main belt asteroid
Business
- Handel Architects, a firm founded in New York in 1994
- Handel's Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt, an ice cream parlor franchise
- Handels or Swedish Commercial Employees' Union
Other uses
- Handel (name)
- HANDEL, the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War
- Handel-C, a programming language
- Handel Gothic, a sans-serif typeface
- Sir Handel, a character from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
- Handel, Herbert Pocket's nickname for Pip in the novel Great Expectations
- Handel Medallion, presented by the City of New York to individuals contributing to the city's intellectual and cultural life
See also
- Ida Haendel (born 1928), Polish violinist
- Handle (disambiguation)
- Handler (disambiguation)
- Hendel
- Hendl
- Hendler
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