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Author: Paul Henry Lang
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-30
Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 0486144593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExceptionally 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
Published: 2014-09-29
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0393245896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 0763666009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Jane Glover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-12-04
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1681779471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Victor Schoelcher
Publisher: London, Trübner and Company
Published: 1857
Total Pages: 504
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Published: 1760
Total Pages: 222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jim Whiting
Publisher: Mitchell Lane
Published: 2019-12-05
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 1545748861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge 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: Victor Schoelcher
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781021608161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography of the great composer George Frideric Handel provides a detailed look at his life and work. With insightful analysis of Handel's musical style and influence, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in Baroque music and the history of classical composition. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: William Smyth Rockstro
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 484
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Hunter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 1783270616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?
