Don 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?

Handel was a German-born composer who wrote music while living in England.
Eventually, he applied for and, I believe, was granted English citizenship
in or around 1727.

Wes Crone <[log in to unmask]>