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C’est un Haendel de 21 ans qui quitte, à l’automne 1706, sa ville natale de Halle, en Saxe, pour entreprendre le plus beau des voyages : un tour d’Italie qui, de Rome à Venise via Florence et Naples, décidera non de l’homme (plus d’un témoignage nous le décrit alternativement caractériel et vaguement placide, à 23 comme à 65 ans) mais -et considérablement- du compositeur… / In the autumn of 1706, at the age of twenty-one, Handel left his native Halle in Saxony to visit Italy, a trip that took him from Rome to Venice via Florence and Naples. Contact with Italy had no influence on his character – contemporary accounts, dating from his youth, at twenty-three, and from later in life, at sixty-five, describe him as alternating between moodiness and a vague placidity – but it did considerably affect his art as a composer…