German music historian and critic Friedrich Chrysander died #OTD in 1901.
His most significant achievement was the publication of the "Händel-Gesellschaft" edition, a monumental 105-volume collection of Handel’s complete works. He was one of the founders of the Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft, one of the first scholarly journals devoted to the study of music history and theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Chrysander
Books about Handel at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=George+Frideric+Handel&submit_search=Search