George Handel

George Frideric Handel (born Georg Friedrich Händel, 23 February 1685  – 14 April 1759) was a German-born, British Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Born in a family indifferent to music, Handel received critical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London (1712), and became a naturalized British subject in 1727.  He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.
== Tossup Questions ==
# In one of this composer's works, a chorus sings exhortations like "Sound the trumpets! Beat the drums! Sports prepare!" Another of his works includes a chorus with fast violin parts depicting "all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters." This composer included the chorus "See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes" in Act III of one of his works. In one of his choruses, the men interject "forever! and ever!" while the women slowly sing "King of Kings and Lord of Lords;" King George II originated the custom of standing for that chorus. For 10 points, name this composer of oratorios like Israel in Egypt, Judas Maccabeus, and Messiah, which includes the "Hallelujah Chorus."
# One of this composer's works pairs the "Largo alla Siciliana" movement "La Paix" with "La Réjouissance," which includes ad lib. snare drum parts in addition to that work's 3 sets of timpani and 24 oboes. This composer included an "Alla Hornpipe" in the second suite of one of his orchestral works. This composer included a musical depiction of flies in Israel in Egypt and the chorus "See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes!" in Judas Maccabeus. He included a fugue on the words "and he shall reign for ever - and ever" in one work. For 10 points, name this German-English composer of Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks, whose Messiah includes the "Hallelujah Chorus."
# In one vocal work by this composer, a rage aria for bass suddenly breaks off after three bars of what seemed to be its middle section, as a two-octave descending scale for strings depicts the singer hurling his spear. Dotted-rhythm figures in E-flat major are exchanged between the violin sections to depict the leaping of the title animals in this composer's alto aria, "Their land brought forth frogs". Two obbligato flutes join the violins in imitating birds in a G-major chorus by him called "May no rash intruder", which is also known as the (*) "Nightingale Chorus", and which appears in a work by him whose third act opens with a sinfonia called "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba". This composer, who included a "Dead March" in his oratorio Saul, wrote a work that includes a chorus that repeats "and he shall reign for ever and ever". For 10 points, name this composer of the oratorios Israel in Egypt, Solomon, and Messiah.