She was the virgin goddess of music, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, and magic. She is often depicted with her sacred creature, an owl usually named as the  owl of Minerva , which symbolizes that she is connected to wisdom.
After his death, Handel's Italian operas fell into obscurity, except for selections such as the aria from Serse,  Ombra mai fu . FÃ¹ the oratorios continued to be performed but not long After'handel s death they were thought to need some, modernisation And mozart orchestrated A german version Of messiah and other. works
Morphing from opera to oratorio When Handel left Italy in 1710 for Hanover and, eventually, England, he was a highly accomplished composer and a superb organist. He established his reputation in London through Italian opera, but by the late 1720s English taste was changing. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728) precipitated a revolution in popular taste. English audiences now wanted their musical entertainment in English, and the future of Italian opera in London looked grim.