Handel scholars and enthusiasts have access to a growing repository of resources, including many digital and online materials. The following list provides links to online research materials that may be useful to anyone engaged in the study of Handel.
Additionally, anyone can join Handel-E, a mailing and discussion list, originally founded by the American Handel Society.
Bibliothekssystem Universität Hamburg
Includes some digitized Handel conducting scores.
British Library Digitised Manuscripts
The British Library hosts digitized copies of most of Handel's autograph manuscripts available for free through their online catalog
A database of collections of concert programs held in European libraries, archives, and museums.
A database of Italian operas and opera librettos 1600–1900 with links to digital copies of opera librettos.
A database of works published in the British Isles and North America between 1473 and 1800. Helpful in locating printed Handel wordbooks (including digitized copies) in libraries all over the world.
Digital library created by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partner institutions. Millions of documents are available online including newspapers, manuscripts, musical scores, images, and books.
A collection of books, journals, manuscripts, printed music, libretti, ephemera, sound recordings, artworks, archives, and artefacts relating to Handel and his circle. Some items have been digitized.
Particularly useful is the full-text search of out-of-copyright books, including some librettos.
Includes digitized early printed editions of Handel by John Walsh, portraits of Handel, and other paintings and art relating to Handel.
Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) Digital Archive
An archive of more than 1,000 H+H concert program books going back to July 1818, containing records of Handel's works performed in America.
Handel Opera Performances Since 1705
A database of performances of Handel's music dramas in staged productions or concert performances since 1705 (including concert performances of operas but not including oratorio concerts).
A database containing transcribed letters, newspaper articles, and other documents related to Handel organized by year.
Contains digitized images of various Handel scores and books on Handel.
List of digitized Handel scores.
List of digitized Handel resources (books, scores, librettos, etc.)
Catalog and digital collection of Italian libraries; contains many digitized manuscripts and printed sources in Italian.
James S. Hall Collection of George Frideric Handel at Princeton University
Some items in this collection have been digitized.
A database of catalogs of major UK and Irish libraries with links to digitized documents.
A meta search engine for the identification of several hundred million media in libraries and book catalogs worldwide (national libraries, union catalogs, collections, and digital-media-only sites, including Hathi Trust, Internet Archive, and others).
The Librettos of Handel's Operas
A digitized collection of seventy-one opera librettos.
Offers access to two libretto collections which have been catalogued and digitized in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and German Historical Institute in Rome.
A program for finding sequence of notes in selected digitized music editions including works of Handel (Chrysander edition digitized in Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Bibliothek).
Online catalog of extant musical sources worldwide, primarily manuscripts and printed music editions, with many links to digitized copies.
Samuel Arnold Edition of Handel’s Works Digitized and Available Online
A resource compiled by Patrick Rogers.
University of North Texas Digital Library
Contains digitized early Handel scores.
Burney Collection of Newspapers
Searchable digitized database of the British Library's Burney Collection of 17th- and 18th-Century Newspapers.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Online archive of English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the British Isles, colonies, and the United States between the years 1701 and 1800.
Digitized collection of 18th-century journals in English.