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George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
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 cas...
George Frideric Handel
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.
The Life of George Frederick Handel
An 1883 biography of Handel, the larger-than-life and much-acclaimed composer whose works remain a staple of concert life.
George Frideric Handel
The author presents a view of Handels life--his character, faith and music--as his contemporaries saw him.
My First Handel
George Frideric Handel, born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, ranks among the most important composers of the Baroque era, alongside Bach and Scarlatti, Dieterich Buxtehude and Georg Philipp Telemann. His compositions for piano (or, in Handel's time, for harpsichord) are characterised by alternating homophonic and polyphonic styles. Easy suite movements are complemented by two easy arrangements from the composer's famous opera and oratorio works.
George Frideric Handel - the Triumph of Time and Truth
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...
George Frideric Handel and Music for Voices
A young adult biography of German composer George Frideric Handel
