Handeliann.adj.
/hanˈdiːlɪən/, /hanˈdɛlɪən/, U.S. /hænˈdɛliən/ A. n.
A person who admires, performs, studies, or imitates the music of Handel or his style of composition.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of specific composer
Handelian1762
Mozartian1838
Wagnerite1855
Brahmsite1881
Wagnerian1882
Wagnerist1891
Savoyard1893
Brahmsian1894
Bachian1920
Schoenbergian1920
Purcellian1922
Bartokian1923
Stravinskyite1924
Stravinskian1925
Mahlerite1926
Schubertian1928
Delian1933
Tchaikovskian1937
Beethovenian1947
Lisztian1947
Schumannite1947
Berliozian1951
Ravelian1951
Rachmaninovian1952
Hindemithian1954
Mahlerian1955
Mozart-lover1959
Straussian1959
Elgarian1972
Verdian1976
Dvořakian1977
Vivaldian1978
1762 H. Walpole Let. 20 June in Corr. (1960) XXII. 42 The company I keep are far from Handelians.
1786 Morning Chron. 21 Mar. By no means calculated for a rigid Handelian however he discovered much ingenuity.
1808 S. Wesley Lett. (1875) 9 This would nettle the Handelians devilishly.
1825 C. Lamb Let. 25 Jan. (1935) II. 453 My sister's cold is as obstinate as an old Handelian whom a modern amateur is trying to convert to Mozart-ism.
1877 Musical Times 18 482/2 Yorkshire amateurs and Yorkshire choristers are pre-eminently Handelians.
1923 Musical Times 64 470/1 Mr. Newman Flower, most enthusiastic of Handelians, has apparently got together everything that is known on the biographical side.
1976 Gramophone Feb. 135/1 (advt.) The greatest living Handelian, Raymond Leppard, at last records this composer's supreme masterpiece.
2004 HMV Choice Mar. 33/1 Handelians will urgently wish to add this rarely heard opera to their library.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Handel, his music, or his style of composition.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [adjective] > specific composer
Purcellian1698
Handelian1770
Rossinian1823
Mozartian1828
Weberian1830
Mendelssohnian1851
Offenbachian1857
Schubertian1866
Mozart-like1870
Wagnerian1873
Brahmsite1878
Beethovenish1879
Meyerbeerian1880
Wagneresque1884
Brahmsian1887
Dvořakian1888
Mendelssohnic1889
Beethovenian1890
Lisztian1890
Elgarian1906
Puccinian1906
Palestrinian1908
Berliozian1910
Straussian1910
Schoenbergian1912
Pucciniesque1917
Chopinesque1920
Ravelian1924
Delian1925
Beethovenized1927
Rachmaninovian1927
Bartokian1929
Sibelian1935
Webernish1938
Mahlerian1939
Hindemithian1941
Bachian1945
Tchaikovskian1945
Metastasian1947
Monteverdian1947
Schumannesque1947
Stravinskian1947
Verdian1947
Webernesque1947
Mahlerish1949
Vivaldian1952
Beethovenesque1955
Meyerbeerish1962
1770 E. Harris Let. 6 Oct. in Series Lett. 1st Earl of Malmesbury (1870) I. 205 Tenducci is amazingly improved; in his part the old Handelian songs were left out.
1788 F. Burney Diary 8 Aug. (1842) IV. 231 The concert was very Handelian.
1829 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 44 Some of the Handelian part of the selections might be called the ultra-Toryism of music.
1885 Athenæum 28 Feb. 288/1 Revivals of Handelian oratorio.
1911 Lady Guthrie in R. L. Orr Ld. Guthrie (1923) 258 Those dusky simple souls interpreting the glorious Handelian strains.
1966 K. Amis Anti-death League 349 The series of florid, rather Handelian amens swung to its close.
2004 Gramophone Aug. 69/1 The at times Handelian choral passages are nicely set in contrast with relatively brief solo sections.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1762