Göttingen International Handel Festival

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The Göttingen International Handel Festival is a renowned annual music festival in Germany dedicated to historically informed performances of George Frideric Handel’s works.

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instanceOf Handel festival
annual event
music festival
alsoPerforms Baroque music by other composers
city Göttingen
country Germany
dedicatedTo George Frideric Handel
focus historically informed performance
founded 1919
founder Oskar Hagen NERFINISHED
frequency annual
genre classical music
hasArtisticDirector George Petrou
hasAudienceScope international
hasCategory Classical music festival in Germany
Early music festival
George Frideric Handel-related event
hasEventType chamber music concerts
lectures
masterclasses
opera productions
oratorio performances
recitals
symposia
hasHistoricalSignificance pioneering modern revivals of Handel stage works
hasOrchestra FestspielOrchester Göttingen
languageOfMainWorks English
German
Italian
locatedIn Göttingen
mainRepertoire works of George Frideric Handel
namedAfter George Frideric Handel
notableFor early music performance practice
revival of Handel operas
organizer Göttingen International Handel Festival self-linksurface differs
surface form: Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen gGmbH
performancePractice historically informed staging
period instruments
previousArtisticDirector John Eliot Gardiner
Lawrence Cummings
Nicholas McGegan
primaryComposerFeatured George Frideric Handel
region Lower Saxony
typicalMonth May
typicalVenues churches in Göttingen
concert halls in Göttingen
theatres in Göttingen
website https://www.haendel-festspiele.de

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Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany hasCulturalEvent Göttingen International Handel Festival
subject surface form: Göttingen
Göttingen International Handel Festival organizer Göttingen International Handel Festival self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen gGmbH