Question of the week:Do you have a favourite London musician, band, composer, or piece of music? "One of my favourite London compositions is George Frideric Handel's Water Music, composed for the coronation of King George I in 1717, which featured a royal procession of barges in the Thames. Handel, of German origin, lived in London for many years and is associated with wonderful sites to visit today, including the Handel House Museum (with links to Jimi Hendrix!) and the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury's Coram's Fields (a jewel of a small museum dedicated to London's first home for abandoned children, which Handel strongly supported)."- Prof Kucich
* Drawing by Prof Shorthair, used under Creative Commons, with thanks.
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