[PDF] The Lives Of George Frideric Handel eBook

Author : Ellen T. Harris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393245896

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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 : David Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1783270616

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How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?

Author : Paul Henry Lang
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486144593

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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 : Jane Glover
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681779471

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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 : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1545748853

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Discusses the life and career of the eighteenth-century German composer.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1545748861

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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 instrument, and 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, George went on to compose some of the most famous musicals of the twentieth century, and he wrote several movie scores.?

Author : Wolf Birkenbihl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3640654188

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Document from the year 2010 in the subject Biographies, , language: English, abstract: The script “The Triumph of Time and Truth” deals with life and career of George Frideric Handel starting with his early years in Halle, Handel’s birth place, where he already got into music as a little boy by secretly playing a small clavichord on the attic. At Weissenfels, the court of the Duke of Saxony, the budding spirit of the ten year old firstly became obvious to an audience listening. His friendship with George Phillip Telemann led him to Hamburg at the very beginning of the 18th century. Here his genius became already visible and he began to develop his own particular style of composing operas which remained so significant for him for decades. In Rome, his next domicile, it was the oratorio beside the opera he focused on. The time he spent in Italy was most formative for his further personal development. The main focus of this script is on Handel’s London years from 1711 to 1759 where his career reached its peak. Here it was that his entirely new creation, the English oratorio became such a great success. This almost half a century brought glory, crisis and wealth to George Frideric Handel.

Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763666009

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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.