Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne is a secular cantata composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) to a libretto by Ambrose Philips (1674-1749), and first performed in 1713, shortly after Handel took up residence in Britain. The cantata celebrates Queen Anne''s birthday. Each stanza of the cantata concludes: The day that gave great Anne birth Who fixed a lasting peace on Earth.