Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The Chevalier John Taylor

  • A musical vision: the eyes of Bach and Handel

    Vincent P. de Luise George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, the towering musical giants of the Baroque, were both coincidently born in Germany about a month apart, in 1685. They also shared the musical style distinctive of the high Baroque characterized by the masterful use of counterpoint and fugal composition. Handel’s oratorios, notably Messiah and Samson,…