Why Handel Never Went Baroque
From Total Return
December 3, 2012 - 10:14am
This Christmas season, before we head off to any performances of the Messiah by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Total Return wants to note that the great composer was a successful investor. In a wonderful article published in 2004, MIT music professor Ellen Harris documents Handel’s financial shrewdness. By the end of his life, according to [...]
December 3, 2012 - 10:14am
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