This composer imitated birdsong in his Organ Concerto in F Major, and he included the "Hailstone Chorus" in an opera compiled from the Hebrew bible.
This composer imitated birdsong in his Organ Concerto in F Major, and he included the "Hailstone Chorus" in an opera compiled from the Hebrew bible. This composer of "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" and Israel in Egypt used a repeated B pedal tone to depict hammers on anvils in The (*) Harmonious Blacksmith. One of this man's works includes movements titled "La Paix" and "La Rejouissance", and another premiered on a barge on the Thames. He also wrote the soprano aria "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth". For ten points, name this German Baroque composer of Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music who also composed the Messiah oratorio.
This composer imitated birdsong in his Organ Concerto in F Major, and he included the "Hailstone Chorus" in an opera compiled from the Hebrew bible.
George Frideric {Handel}