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Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important…

— Cecilia Bartoli

It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people…

— William Edgar

The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand…

— Jennifer Donnelly

He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now…

— Dante Alighieri

“He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world. If…

— Patrick Süskind

“Handel’s “He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd,” a popular anthem with elaborate part singing that the congregation performed faultlessly. As hundreds of…

— Ken Follett

“With just the ‘Carmagnole’ to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the ‘Marseillaise’ and he will liberate the world. ”

— Victor Hugo

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

— Gavin Bryars

“Philip was on friendly terms with the little Chinaman who sat at table with him twice each day. His name was Sung. He was…

— William Somerset Maugham

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson