Handel

GEORGE FREDERICK, (han'děl,) the greatest composer of oratorio music that has yet appeared, was B. at Halle, Germany, in 1684. After producing some minor operas, ., in Italy, he settled in England in 1712, where he became chapel-master to George I. In 1740 appeared his oratorio of Saul, and in the following year that sublime conception, The Me iah. Samson, Moses in Egypt, Joshua, andJephthah are his later works. D. 1759. [s. 438] Hand -flower Tree. (Bot.) See CHEIROSTEM Hand -flower Tree. (Bot.) See CHEIROSTEMON. [s. 438]