Mara+Z.+-+Handel

Mara
 * 1) He was born on February 23, 1685.
 * 2) He was born Halle, Germany.
 * 3) His father tried to dissuade him from perusing in a musical carrier.
 * 4) His first opera was Almiria.
 * 5) He played the clavichord when he was a child.
 * 6) He studied to be a lawyer.
 * 7) When he was 18 moved to Hamburg, Germany.
 * 8) He had a fight over an opera and it turned into a duel.
 * 9) He then moved to Italy.
 * 10) He settled down in London, England.
 * 11) When he was 35 became an music director at the Royal Academy of music.
 * 12) He wrote the oratorio the Messiah.
 * 13) It took him 25 days to write. He barely ate or slept during that period of time.
 * 14) Other pieces that he composed were Zadok the priest and Music for the royal fireworks.
 * 15) In 1737 he has a stroke or some other sickness that left his right arm temporarily paralyzed and stopped him from playing.
 * 16) Handel's Messiah was first performed in Dublin on April 13, 1742.
 * 17) In August, on a journey back from Germany to London Handel was seriously hurt.
 * 18) In 1751 his eye site started to fail in one eye and progressed to his other, reasons why are unknown.
 * 19) He died on April 14, 1759 in London, England.