The Borrowed Connection
![George Frideric Handel's memorial in Westminster Abbey](/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,width=780/media/12257199/borrowed_connection.jpg)
George Frideric Handel's memorial in Westminster Abbey
The “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” is one of Handel’s best-known works--and yet the main theme first appeared 15 years earlier in Telemann’s Concerto for Three Violins.
Some call Handel’s use of other composers’ music “creative borrowing.” Others call it plagiarism.
In this hour, a variety of examples that could be used to support either case--plus a better understanding of Handel's methods.