“Handel paralysed music in England for generations and they have not yet quite got over him.”

—  George Frideric Handel

Frederick Delius, letter to Ethel Smyth, February 17, 1909; Lionel Carley Delius: A Life in Letters vol. 2 (1988) p. 9.
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German, later British Baroque composer 1685–1759

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