Dickens’s unprecedented celebrity made him the most popular novelist of his century but the author of Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, and dozens of other works was more than just a writer.
George Frideric Handel, German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, Messiah, and is also known for such occasional pieces as Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks.
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