"Handel" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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        {
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          "name": "Music",
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      "derived": [
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            "adjective"
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          "word": "Handelesque"
        },
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            "adjective"
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          "word": "Handelian"
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          "ref": "2014 April 17, Tom Service, “Handel's Messiah: the sound of our better selves”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its first performance in 1742.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer."
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        [
          "Baroque",
          "Baroque"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "word": "Handel"
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  "derived": [
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      "word": "Handelesque"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "Handelian"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From a German surname.",
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  "pos": "name",
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          "ref": "2014 April 17, Tom Service, “Handel's Messiah: the sound of our better selves”, in The Guardian:",
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