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Donald Satz <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:32:56 -0500
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Alan Moss wrote:

>After all, even Handel, not only a great composer but also probably
>Britain's most popular classical composer ever, was adopted from another
>country.

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?

Don Satz
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