Handel in London : the making of a genius

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Label

Handel in London : the making of a genius

Title remainder

the making of a genius

Statement of responsibility

Jane Glover

Creator

• Glover, Jane

Author

• Glover, Jane

Subject

• Biographies
• Biography
• Composers
• Composers -- Germany -- Biography
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• England -- London
• Germany
• Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
• 1700-1799
• London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
• Manners and customs
• Music
• Music -- England | London -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
• Biographies

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

Handel in London tells the story of a young German composer who in 1712, 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 Georg Friederich Handel.Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of musical activity in London for the next four decades, composing masterpiece after masterpiece, whether the glorious coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest, operas such as Giulio Cesare, 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, of practices and practicalities, 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

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

UAB

Dewey number

780.92

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

ML410.H13

LC item number

G53 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography