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Nice piece. The guy's name is Georg Friedrich Händel, not Handel. Even if you don't have that letter on your keyboard, you can still find ways to enter it: ht
by Tepix 4y ago
Nice piece.
The guy's name is Georg Friedrich Händel, not Handel. Even if you don't have that letter on your keyboard, you can still find ways to enter it:
https://www.confidentgerman.com/how-to-write-umlaut-a-u-o-s-without-a-german-keyboard/ https://www.confidentgerman.com/how-to-write-umlaut-a-u-o-s-...
- Asooka 4y agoOr just spell it Haendel. Though I've found that's a losing battle with the English world.
- rob74 4y agoThen you have an ambiguity between names where the Umlaut is replaced with "ae"/"oe"/"ue" (Haendel) and names that are actually written with "ae"/"oe"/"ue" (Goethe)...
- eru 4y agoYes, but nonetheless that's the official rule for German.
- beeforpork 4y agoThere is nothing ambiguous about it, because it's the same pronunciation. It's a convention of how this particular name is spelled. But does German have ambiguities here? Yes, it does. In the instrument 'Oboe', the 'oe' is pronounced as two syllables: long 'o' plus schwa. It cannot be written with 'ö'. It should better be written 'Obohe' (my controversial proposal). And dialectally/regionally, 'oe' may be long 'o' instead of the 'ö' sound, like in the city of 'Soest', which could be written 'Sohst', but then people from that city would complain (about tradition, maybe).
- nominusllc 4y agothere is no schwa in oboe, its oh-bow not oh-bow-uh ō′bō <-- see? From the American Heritage Dictionary 5th-ed. A schwa is the upside down 'e' which is not present.
- School-Cotton 4y agoThey were talking about the German word, not the English one. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oboe#German https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oboe#German
- smiddereens 4y ago
- Aidevah 4y agoHandel became a subject of Britain in 1727 by an act of parliament[1]. The text of the act itself[2] clearly referred to him as "George Frederic Handel" with no umlauts. Considering he spent the rest of his life in Britain as a naturalised British citizen there's little reason on insisting to use the umlaut for his name. [1] https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_HL_PO_PB_1_1726_13G1n3 https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_HL... [2] https://digitalarchive.parliament.uk/HL/PO/PB/1/1726/13G1n3 https://digitalarchive.parliament.uk/HL/PO/PB/1/1726/13G1n3
- josefx 4y ago> clearly referred to him as "George Frederic Handel" That doesn't fit either of the spellings of Frideric used in the linked text.
- nominusllc 4y agoPut some respect on his name.
- atombender 4y agoNo, it's perfectly acceptable, even preferable, to refer to him as Handel. The reason is he changed his name when he became a British citizen. He chose the anglicized version, George Frideric Handel. Note the spelling of his first and middle names, too. It was Handel himself who chose to change his name, and he used it in letters and other communications, including his signature, and the inscription on his grave's monument at Westminster Abbey, which he commissioned himself [1]. In Britain, his English name is used consistently: The Handel museum (Handel & Hendrix), Handel House, etc. You can of course call him by his German name, too; both are fine. [1] https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/george-frederic-handel https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/comme...
- Tepix 4y agoInteresting, i didn't know that. Thanks.