The Lives Of George Frideric Handel

Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245896
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends written by Ellen T. Harris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document—Handel’s will—offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In it, he remembers not only family and close colleagues but also neighborhood friends. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down the letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents connected to these bequests. 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. With this wholly new approach, Harris has achieved something greater than biography. Layering the interconnecting stories of Handel’s friends like the subjects and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man, hiding in full view behind his public persona.

Author : Paul Henry Lang
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144593
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Frideric Handel written by Paul Henry Lang and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exceptionally full, detailed study of the man, his music and times. Childhood, music training, years in London; analysis of Messiah and other works; much more. Introduction. Includes 35 illustrations.

Author : David Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270616
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of George Frideric Handel written by David Hunter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?

Author : Jane Glover
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681779471
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handel in London written by Jane Glover and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II and the composer was George Freidrich Handel. Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of music activity in London for the next four decades, composing masterpiece after masterpiece, whether the glorious coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest, operas such as Rinaldo and Alcina or the great oratorios, culminating, of course, in Messiah. Here, Jane Glover, who has conducted Handel’s work in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, draws on her profound understanding of music and musicians to tell Handel’s story. It is a story of music-making and musicianship, but also of courts and cabals of theatrical rivalries and of eighteenth-century society. It is also, of course the story of some of the most remarkable music ever written, music that has been played and sung, and loved, in this country—and throughout the world—for three hundred years.

Author : Marian Van Til
Publisher : WordPower Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0979478502
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Frideric Handel written by Marian Van Til and published by WordPower Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a view of Handels life--his character, faith and music--as his contemporaries saw him.

Author : John Mainwaring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel written by John Mainwaring and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763665991
Total Pages : 49 pages
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Download or read book Handel, Who Knew What He Liked written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography, the man who would later compose some of the world's most beautiful music is shown to have once been a stubborn little boy with a mind of his own.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584152798
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of George Gershwin written by Jim Whiting and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gershwin couldn't seem to stay out of trouble when he was a boy. He was a tough kid who got in a lot of fights and frequently skipped school. When his family bought a piano, his life was transformed. He quickly mastered the piano, then dropped out of school when he was fifteen to become a musician. Within a year, he had sold his first song. When he was 20, he wrote his first big hit. Five years after that, Rhapsody in Blue catapulted him to international fame. With his brother Ira as lyricist, he went on to compose some of the most famous musicals of the twentieth century and also wrote several movie scores. But he died tragically when he was only 38. Book jacket.

Author : William Smyth Rockstro
Publisher : London, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of George Frederick Handel written by William Smyth Rockstro and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1883 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545748853
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of George Frideric Handel written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life and career of the eighteenth-century German composer.