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   ndel and Haydn Society, Boston‘The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia is remarkable: a well-researched, elegantly written, oftentimes witty, cornucopia of Ha. ounder of Les Arts Florissants‘The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia is a fitting tribute to. one of the greatest composers. It is extremely comprehensive, dealing not only with the background ...

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   Jul 12, 2012 · Born in Germany to a family that reputedly tried to discourage his initial interest in music, he broke away to seek his fortune in Italian opera. A series of career moves brought him via Hanover to London, where he settled and dominated the city's musical life for half a century.

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   John Mainwaring's "Memoirs" (1760), the first major biography of a composer, capture the lofty reputation and immense impact of George Frideric Handel in Georgian Britain. This first modern transcription of the text incorporates comments and criticism from Handel's surviving friends. See full PDF. download Download PDF.

4. assets.cambridge.org › 97811070 › 19539GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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   The life and career of George Frideric Handel, one of the most frequently performed composers from the Baroque period, are copiously and intricately documented through a huge variety of contemporary sources. This multi-volume major publication is the most up-to-date and comprehensive collection of these documents.

5. assets.cambridge.org › 97811080 › 64811Music The Life of George Frederick Handel

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   The Life of George Frederick Handel Beloved not only in Britain, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) is admired as a composer the world over. His inventive and sensitive melodic genius and his exuberant brilliance in depicting the spectacular are best displayed in his Messiah and Zadok the Priest. Larger than life, Handel impressed all

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   Jun 2, 2021 · Though a minuscule part of the continuing tradition of Handel's music, the copy provides a point of entry into the complex world of dissemination history, the process by which works in the broadest sense – the images that we create and maintain of the people and things around us – are circulated.

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   Who was George Frideric Handel?

   • GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL The life and career of George Frideric Handel, one of the most frequently performed composers from the Baroque period, are copiously and intricately documented through a huge variety of contemporary sources. This multi-volume major publication is the most up-to-date and comprehensive collection of these documents.

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   What's new in Handel's biography?

   • This biography provides an account of the man and his music. This new edition incorporates new material. The last half century has seen a great renewal of research on the circumstances of Handel's life, and a major expansion in performances and recordings of his music.

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   What is the Handel series?

   • This series makes available a range of significant works encompassing all aspects of the developing discipline. Beloved not only in Britain, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) is admired as a composer the world over.

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   How did Handel become famous?

   • This volume includes family documents from Halle, then covers Handel’s early career in Germany and Italy, followed by the period in which he became an established composer for London ’s Italian opera company while also writing the Water Music and the Utrecht Te Deum for the British court.

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   How many books do you know about Handel?

   • His six books about Handel and his music include The Cambridge Companion to Handel (1997), and he has edited many editions of Handel ’s works, including Messiah and Samson and the operas Ariodante and Imeneo.

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   Who compiled Handel documents?

   • The rst systematic inves- tigation of Handel documents can be attributed to Victor Schoelcher, probably assisted by Rophino Lacy as his researcher, who prepared manuscript indexes of Handel ’s publications and performances that went well beyond the needs of his published biography of the composer (1857).

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   Mar 20, 2019 · Handel has been a popular subject of musical biography since his death in 1759. Indeed, it was just a year later that John Mainwaring published his Memoir of the life of the late George Frederic Handel , at once both the first biography of Handel, and the first extended biography of any composer.