Handel or Bach? The great Baroque debate.

[Enrique]

https://bachtrack.com/nov-2013-baroque-bach-handel


This is a great discovery for me. I found bachtrack.com through google.

[Peter]

Impossible to answer in my view, both are great composers who left us sublime masterpieces. Beethoven as we know gave top place to Handel, but Tchaikovsky regarded Handel as a 4th rate composer. Strange how composers are often bad judges of other composers. Another example of this is Delius who thought Beethoven nothing but scales and arpeggios!

[Quijote]

Agreed, impossible to answer!
To ask a gastronomic question as a comparison to the Bach versus Handel debate: do you prefer a top-class Burgundy grand cru or a top-class Bordeaux grand cru?
A Romanee-Conti (Burgundy) or a Chateau Angelus (Bordeaux)?
I'll take both, thank you very much!!
By the way, these wines are way beyond my pay-grade but I am priviliged to have tasted both in a wine-tasting course I did years ago.