Handel was born with an umlaut on his name: Händel.  He rubbed it out after he left his native Germany for a sojourn of several years in Italy before emigrating to non-diacritical England in 1711 as the chief importer to that island nation of big-time Italian opera. Shorn of those two Teutonic dots, Handel’s name More

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