Book Description
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 : Paul Henry Lang
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 47,24 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 : 42,93 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 : George Frideric Handel
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Marian Van Til
Publisher : WordPower Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0979478502
The author presents a view of Handels life--his character, faith and music--as his contemporaries saw him.
Author : George Frideric Handel
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780781294812
Bonded Leather binding
Author : George Frideric Handel
Publisher : Warner Bros. Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Piano
ISBN : 9781576239766
Includes a solo transcription of the 'Hallelujah Chorus' from Handel's glorious oratorio Messiah. Individual stylized dance pieces (Sarabandes, Minuets, Gigues, Allemandes, and Courantes) and Suites from the period are also included. Great for teaching a variety of Baroque styles to students! 43 titles on 152 pages.
Author : John Mainwaring
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1760
Category : Biographies
ISBN :
Author : Mary Ann Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1136783598
Baroque composer George Frideric Handel easily ranks among the world's greatest composers. The first edition of this research guide on Handel appeared in 1988; since that time a great deal of scholarly work has been published on Handel and related areas, including the discovery of a hitherto unknown work. New general resources such as the New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), electronic resources such as the RISM libretto catalogue online, and the study of Handel's continuing popularity as evidenced by the new Handel House Museum in London and Handel practice around the world (e.g., Messiah and millennium celebrations in Tonga, singalong Messiahs etc.) are incorporated into this revised edition of the Handel guide.
Author : Jane Glover
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681779471
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 : George Frideric Handel
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780979828805
Handel's Messiah. Complete, unabridged orchestra and vocal score from the original manuscript. Newly engraved. Perfect for performance, or for Messiah "sing-alongs." Newly engraved edition from Handel's original manuscript.