HAWN 
7% handful of corn or bran is alfo underfood t 
bran as two hands will hold, ee 
“as much: n or 
Bes together ; a quantity frequently ordered to be given 
HANDA, or Henna, in Geography, a fma'l inhabited 
Mand of Scotland, on the coat of Sutherland, divided from 
kinds. 
HANDEL, Gerorce FREDERICK, in Biography, the 
ateft mufical compofer of his time, ae in fome particu- 
oy of any time or countr » was born at Halle, 
£ Lower Saxony, 
u 
born; and in his -early chi 
a paffion for mufic as could not % fabdned ate ‘et com- 
mands of his father, who intended him for the profeflion of 
the at 
He had made a confiderable progrefs in this art, By ftealth, 
before he was allowed a matter ; ee feven years old, his 
father findin ss ampolikle to fix his attention to a thing 
ich he feemed to have been endowed by 
nature with ae uncommon propenfities and faculties, a 
placed him under Zachau, organiit of the cathedral churc 
’ of Halle; a man of a. abilities in his profeffion, 
# 
and proud. of his pupil. _ By the time he was nine years old, 
our on Su clan was not only able to officiate on the 
ergan for 
maiter, but began to ftudy compofition ; and 
at this early period of his ie he is faid to have co mpofed a 
he was — ten 
He feems to ee pita to Wad under his fir mafter 
Zachau, in his uative city, till the year 1698 ; when, being 
arrived at the.age of fourteen, he was carried to Berlin, 
where operas were in a very flourifhing ftate, at the court 
of the elector of Brandenburg, afterwards king of Pruilia, 
who had then in his fervice not only many Anger? of of eminence 
et 
an 
fach expeGations af his future greatnefs, that his electoral 
highnefs offered to take him into his ioe and fend him 
to Italy, for the sila hese of his mufi udles 5, but his 
father declining this paves from a {pirit of indepen 
it was. determined that he fhould return to Halle, where he 
muft have continued a confiderable time ; ‘though we ar 
told that his. father’s oa happening foon after his aioe 
not being able to o fupport the ex xpence 
of a are to Italy, whither he was ambitious of going, 
wm d to Hambur fical. t; as 7 
ties and ees Preis up. p by hintalf phreee ey Mee 
Me ac: a 
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~ cians to have been 
HAWN 
thefon, in the year 1740, furnithes two or three inci 
concerning Handel, cpa intervened between the ti 
nce, 
order to ftudy the law in that giverie ies ay thi- 
at Halle, where, fays Tele, 
“from my acquaintance sik andel, who was y fa- 
mous, I again fucked in fo much of the poifon of take as 
nearly overfet all my op el 
Handel was now but fixteen years of age; and 2s 
Telemann, i in his account os himfelf and_ his ikudies, foon 
mentions our jen mufician again, we fhall proceed a little 
fess in his narrati 
«© However,” 3 ia Te [eae “ after quitting Han- 
del, I perfevered i 
doning all thoughts of mufic, by receiving from e a is 
for my fubfiftence ; which, owever, I returned ; and, : 
injunctions concerning the ftudy of mufic. er bleflings 
ica my, new abours followed ; ; and now I was halt a mu- 
cian in. 
e it nit 
sini organift and direétor of the ae _Th 
however, I only played at the confecration, De tiit 
afterwards refigned it, as a bone. of contention. for young 
mufical fludents. to Lasee ae feramble for. \t. this tim time 
Ser Peat of ae exc me 
reciprocally « eeeuloceys out OUEn es 
| tad cower, ee ie > aoe 
According to Telemann’s dates, all this pave. bay 
bees are oe ears 101 ae ie when. Hanets 
ig Halle, : erage ‘too diltant 
m Leipfic for. fequent vilits. between | hefe young mu! 
Aticable. 
Matthefon’s at ts seeeeee, sod inter oO 
