Handel's Will
Author : George Frideric Handel
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Manuscripts, English
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Author : George Frideric Handel
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Manuscripts, English
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Author : Paul Henry Lang
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486144593
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 : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393245896
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 : Donna Leon
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0802194907
A “real tour de force” exploring the mythic history of animals in Handel’s operas complete with illustrations and audio recordings of the composer’s arias (News—Austria). When New York Times–bestselling novelist Donna Leon isn’t writing her Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries, she often listens to her favorite composer, George Frideric Handel. Leon noticed that Handel frequently references animals in his music. In his arias, Handel explores the perceived virtues and vices of the lion, bee, nightingale, snake, elephant, and tiger, among others. With this in mind, Leon combined her knowledge of medieval bestiaries—illustrated collections of animal stories—with her love of Handel. In Handel’s Bestiary, Leon traces twelve animals through history, mythology, and Handel’s arias. Each chapter is joined by original illustrations by German painter Michael Sowa. And in this enhanced edition, music is included from conductor Alan Curtis and his orchestra, Il Complesso Barocco.
Author : Michael Marissen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300206992
Every Easter, audiences across the globe thrill to performances of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” but they would probably be appalled to learn the full extent of the oratorio’s anti-Judaic message. In this pioneering study, respected musicologist Michael Marissen examines Handel’s masterwork and uncovers a disturbing message of anti-Judaism buried within its joyous celebration of the divinity of the Christ. Discovering previously unidentified historical source materials enabled the author to investigate the circumstances that led to the creation of the Messiah and expose the hateful sentiments masked by magnificent musical artistry—including the famed “Hallelujah Chorus,” which rejoices in the “dashing to pieces” of God’s enemies, among them the “people of Israel.” Marissen’s fascinating, provocative work offers musical scholars and general readers alike an unsettling new appreciation of one of the world’s best-loved and most widely performed works of religious music.
Author : Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0310208068
This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674015982
Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Harris investigates their place in Handel's life as well as their extraordinary beauty.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2010
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 1884
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1885
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