The last occasion in which he appeared in public
was at a performance of the 'Messiah' at Covent Garden, on April 6,
1759. On the 14th of the same month his death took place at the house
in Brook Street where he had resided for many years. He was buried in
Westminster Abbey, where a grand monument was later on erected to his
memory. His chief manuscripts came into the possession of King George
III., and are preserved in the musical library at Buckingham Palace.

FOOTNOTES:

[3] Rockstro's 'Life of G.F. Handel,' 1883.

[4] Grove's 'Dictionary of Music.'

[5] It is a fact that this stupendous work was completed in twenty-four
days!

[6] In the manuscript score preserved at Buckingham Palace the symphony
is marked 'Pifa,' a shortening of the Italian word 'Pifferare,' to play
on the fife.

HANDEL'S PRINCIPAL COMPOSITIONS

8 ORATORIOS, etc.
La Resurrezione (1708); two Passions (1704 and 1716); Acis and
Galatea (1720); Esther (1720); Deborah (1733); Athalia (1733);
Alexander's Feast (1736); Saul (1738); Israel in Egypt (1738);
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (1739); L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed
il Moderato (1740); The Messiah (1741); Samson (1741); Joseph
(1743); Semele (1743); Belshazzar (1744); Hercules (1744);
Occasional Oratorio (1746); Judas Maccabaeus (1746); Alexander
Balus (1747); Joshua (1747); Solomon (1748); Susanna (1748);
Theodora (1749); The Choice of Hercules (1750); Jephtha
(1751); The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757).
Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate. 1713.
12 Chandos Anthems. 1718-1720.
2 Chandos Te Deums. 1718-1720.
4 Coronation Anthems (Let thy Hand be Strengthened, My Heart is
inditing, The King shall Rejoice, and Zadok the Priest). 1727.
Funeral Anthem (The Ways of Zion do Mourn). 1737.
Dettingen Te Deum. 1743.
40 OPERAS, mostly remembered only by a single aria. The following may
be named:
Almira (1705); Rodrigo (1707); Agrippina (1709); Rinaldo (1711);
Radamisto (1720); Muzio Scaevola (Act III. only--1721); Ottone
(1722); Scipione (1726); Admeto (1726); Ezio (1732); Serse (1738).
Water Music. 1715.
17 Suites de Pieces for the clavecin.
40 Concertos for various instruments.

HAYDN

HAYDN

The Cathedral of St. Stephen, standing in the central square of
Vienna, looked grey and cheerless in the misty atmosphere of a
November evening. Evensong had just concluded, the worshippers had
dispersed, and the grea