1. Bach mainly composed religious music, while Handel's music was mainly secular music in the court.

2. Bach's music is solemn and pursues logic and rationality, while Handel's music pays attention to splendor and beauty.

3. Bach's music is polyphonic, while Handel prefers the main melody.

4. Bach has never been out of Germany in his life, and he didn't get dazzling honor and reputation when he was alive, and his life was relatively difficult. Handel traveled all over Europe, worked in the royal family and was a great court musician.

I think of these for the time being, and they have some interesting similarities. They were born in the same year, and the place of birth should not be too far away. They were both blind in their later years. Personally, I like Bach far more than Handel. To put it simply, Bach's music has more connotations. I think so.

Add a little generalization from others:

Handel was born in the middle class and worked where the middle class first gained power. The turn of his palace opera to divine drama symbolizes the great change of society, and he has become an architect of the new middle class culture and the creator of modern public mass. Like Bach, he stood in the mainstream of European music and absorbed French, Italian, British and German factors into his art. Bach and him, as the representative of the late Baroque, complement each other. Bach's art is introspective; Handel is an extroverted and active person, and Bach composes rhapsody in the attic of organ; Handel is a courtier, Bach is a meticulous artist, and he makes every form he touches perfect; Handel always writes operas in a stroke, and he is an outstanding impromptu composer. Bach is a master of fine carving; Handel writes with ease. Bach stared at the future world with mysterious eyes; Handel praised the magnificence and power of this world. Both of them were inspired by ethical ideals. But Bach is a Lutheran, while Handel is an enlightener, and his moral concept is not bound by dogma.

They, Ramo and Vivaldi all achieved great success and enjoyed great success and fame in their time; They wrote music with skill, sincerity and imaginative connotation, which is still of great significance today. They are all in the period when the contradiction between the counterpoint style and the main melody style is reconciled. Both of them are good at composing instrumental music and vocal music. They all know the new trend of music thought. Although none of them have made a thoughtful revolution in his own music, they all created in the established form and style of the late Baroque. Their creativity mainly lies in engaging in these recognized things in a unique and best way. Bach made a successful attempt at all forms of late baroque music except opera. Handel is superior to opera creation. Handel's greatest contribution is to create a new type of opera outside the baroque factor.

Today, Bach is known as the "father of modern music". In that year, Beethoven commented on Handel, saying, "A master beyond all masters". "Handel is the greatest composer of all time, and I would like to take off my hat and kneel before his grave."

Let's talk about it again. Bach's greatest success was the creation of the law of average and counterpoint, but none of Handel's works in his life were created by counterpoint.