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-...
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-...
[1] https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_HL...
[2] https://digitalarchive.parliament.uk/HL/PO/PB/1/1726/13G1n3
That doesn't fit either of the spellings of Frideric used in the linked text.
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/comme...
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).
ō′bō <-- see? From the American Heritage Dictionary 5th-ed. A schwa is the upside down 'e' which is not present.