Donald Satz wrote:

>This isn't a significant matter, but I always assumed than Handel was a
>German composer who happened to write many works while living in England.
>Did he change his citizenship? Was anything like this done formally during
>the 1700's?

Yes, I believe that the various biographies of Handel do state that he
formally became a subject of the Crown, IIRC during the reign of George II.

Bill H.