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Opera dominated Handel’s career, yet for several centuries he was better known for his oratorios and instrumental works. He forged a personal idiom by taking Italian traditions and adding in elements of German counterpoint and dance forms from France. The result was a uniquely cosmopolitan style which, when Handel took it to London, would expand to embrace the musical legacy of the English Restoration composer, Henry Purcell. Handel’s first music lessons were with Carl Zachow, organist at the Halle Marienkirche. Zachow instructed the young Handel in the German traditions of counterpoint and harmony. After a year in the post of organist at Halle Cathedral, Handel moved in to Hamburg. Here he served an apprenticeship at north Germany’s most important opera house. His first operas, Almira and Nero, were written for the Hamburg stage in But backstage tensions soon led Handel to resign his position. He arrived in Italy, then the most musically significant country in Europe, in

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