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An edition of George Frideric Handel (2014)

George Frideric Handel

a life with friends

First edition.

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  • 2 Want to read

During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel's music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself - known to most as the composer of Messiah - is a bit of a mystery. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents. The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that interlaces vibrant descriptions of Handel's music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal.

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Composers, Friends and associates, Biography, Handel, george frideric, 1685-1759, Composers, biography

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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

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George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Table of Contents

Introductions : Handel and his friends
Before London (1685-1710: German training, Italian sojourn, arrival in England)
Politics, patronage, and pension (1710-1727: Birthday ode for Queen Anne to Riccardo primo for George II)
Commerce and trade (1711-1730: Rinaldo to end of Royal Academy)
Music at home (1715-1730: Chamber music and keyboard works, private concerts, publications)
Marriage, wealth, and social status (1728-1741: The "second" Academy to the last opera, Deidamia)
Ambition, law, and friendship (1738-1749: Saul, Samson, Belshazzar, Susanna, Solomon)
Making and collecting (1738-1750: Roubiliac sculpture of Handel, Alexander's feast, concertos, collecting)
Religion and charity (1739-1750: A look back at Esther, then Israel in Egypt, Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus, Theodora)
Sickness and death (1737-1759: First "paralytic attack," a look back to Admeto, then madness in Saul and Hercules, and Jephtha to The triumph of time and truth)
Wills and legacies
Appendix 1. Currency, living costs, wages, and fees
Appendix 2. A very select discography.

Edition Notes

"Dramatis personae": pages xiii-xix.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-409), discography (pages 381-387) and index.

Copyright Date
2014

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Dewey Decimal Class
780.92, B
Library of Congress
ML410.H13 H279 2014, ML410.H13H279 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 472 pages
Number of pages
472

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OL27172752M
Internet Archive
georgefridericha0000harr
ISBN 10
0393088952
ISBN 13
9780393088953
LCCN
2014008148
OCLC/WorldCat
869437823, 2014008148

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