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Chaconne with 49 variations3/12/2024 ![]() Handel was the second child of this marriage the first son was stillborn. ![]() Bartholomew in Giebichenstein, who himself came from a long line of Lutheran pastors. Within a year Georg married again, this time to the daughter of a Lutheran minister, Pastor Georg Taust of the Church of St. With this, Georg determinedly began the process of becoming self-made by dint of his "conservative, steady, thrifty, unadventurous" lifestyle, he guided the five children he had with Anna who reached adulthood into the medical profession (except his youngest daughter, who married a government official). When he was 20, he married the widow of the official barber-surgeon of a suburb of Halle, inheriting his practice. Georg Händel (senior) was born at the beginning of the war, and was apprenticed to a barber in Halle at the age of 14, after his father died. The arts and music, however, flourished only among the higher strata (not only in Halle but throughout Germany), of which Handel's family was not a member.
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