Handel House Museum in Brook Street - a place of life and death of the great composer, author of the immortal oratorio "Messiah". He lived here for thirty-six years here have experienced divine enlightenment, hence went to his final journey.

In 1685, when the light came Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, in a totally indifferent to the music of a German family Handel Georg Friedrich was born a boy. In four years the child taught himself to play the harpsichord, in seven years, mastered the body. At eleven years he served at the court of the Elector of Brandenburg, in the twenty - wrote his first opera. In 1712 Handel came to London. A brilliant young composer was well received at the court, he received a lifetime pension, he developed orders.

In 1723, Handel gained permanent home, renting a newly built house on Brook Street, 25. There he rehearsed here wrote his greatest works: the anthem "Zadok the Priest" (on the occasion of the coronation of King George II), a suite of "Music for the Royal Fireworks "And, of course, the great oratorio" Messiah "in the biblical texts. Today it is the most famous product of Western choral music: choir "Hallelujah" from "Messiah" by ear even remember those who does not know that it is Handel.

In this house, visited great genius and inspiration ordeal. In 1750 he was injured in a road accident, surgery on the eye made a charlatan. Recent years have been marred by Handel's blindness, terrible gout, obesity. A week before his death on Easter 1759 the last time he listened to performance of "Messiah." Handel was buried with all state honors in Westminster Cathedral.

The museum was opened in 2001. It includes the restored rooms on the first and second floors of the Handel House and exhibition halls in the neighboring building. In the premises there is a museum of objects and items that belonged to Handel personally rate here is made to recreate the atmosphere of the home of the great master. The floors are original XVIII century, and the boards creak just like two hundred years ago, two harpsichord - Flemish firm Ruckers, on the walls hang portraits of friends Handel. The bedroom has a four-poster bed - exactly been included in the description of the house a few months after the death of the great composer. The museum letters original manuscripts, early editions of Handel's operas and oratorios, his portraits.

The house-museum of Handel's no sound record of his works. People come here to worship the memory of the genius and live music - a clear, clean, causing involuntary tears.

The museum also includes the room next door on Brook Street 23, where in the late sixties, lived one of the most famous musicians of the XX century, rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It is the only known home significantly Hendrix.