Jessica Duchen might not be the biggest fan of Handel's ever.
(This is an example of British understatement).
She writes in the Independent:
"Beethoven said: "Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived."
He was wrong: he deserved that epithet himself. Handel can't hold a candle
to Bach, let alone Beethoven. A one-man baroque-and-roll hit factory, he
compromised his art by selling out. Even if he did move to Britain".
More on her blog -- the director's cut, with extra snark.
If you invite the delightful Jess over for tea, please hide your antique copy of Mainwaring's
Memoirs of the life of the late George Frederic Handel.
Just so you know.