Elite opera and oratorio were not the only music in Handel’s London. This famous scene by William Hogarth (1697–1764) shows a violinist, sometimes identified as a player in Handel’s orchestra, enraged by lowbrow music and noise beneath his window. William Hogarth (1698–1764), The Enraged Musician 1741 (engraving)/© Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA/ Transfer from the School of Music/The Bridgeman Art Library.