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Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel, and John Christopher Smith : With Select Pieces of Music, Composed by J. C. Smith, Never Before Published
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ISBN: 1107281148 1108070949 Year: 1799 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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The author and clergyman William Coxe (1748-1828), noted for his travel works, was the stepson of Handel's amanuensis, German-born John Christopher Smith (1712-95). First published in 1799, the present work is a valuable source of first-hand information about two men at the heart of eighteenth-century English music: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), whose inventive and sensitive melodic genius and exuberant brilliance in depicting the spectacular are best displayed in his Messiah and Zadok the Priest, and Smith, a composer of attractive and fashionable music, who settled in London in 1720, took lessons with Handel and later supported the great composer as his eyesight failed. Smith was also organist at the Foundling Hospital until 1770. This publication, profits from which were intended to support Smith's family, draws on the works of John Hawkins and Charles Burney, and on anecdotes claimed to be 'derived from unquestionable authority'.


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The lives of George Frideric Handel
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ISBN: 1782047301 1782046429 1783270616 Year: 2015 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press,

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To evaluate the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say? This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, notonly to produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of biography and dissemination by using Handel's life and lives as a case study. By examining the images of Handel to be found in biographies and music histories - the genius, the religious profound, the master of musical styles, the distiller into music of English sentiment, the glorifier of the Hanoverians, the hymner of the middleclass, the independent, the prodigious, the generous, the sexless, the successful, the wealthy, the bankrupt, the pious, the crude, the heroic, the devious, the battler of ill-fortune, the moral exemplar - and by adding new factual information, David Hunter shows how events are manipulated into stories and tropes. One such trope has been employed to portray numerous persons as Handel's enemies regardless of whether Handel considered them as such. Picking apart the writing of Handel's biographers and other reporters, Hunter exposes the narrative underpinnings - the lies, confusions, presumptions, and conclusions, whether direct and inferred or assumed - to show how Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories have moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon.

DAVID HUNTER is Music Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin.


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The rival sirens
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ISBN: 9781107033375 9781139519663 9781107058194 1107058198 9781107055971 1107055970 1139519662 1107033373 1139889702 1107065615 1107057043 1107054907 1107059534 1108829244 9781108829243 9781139889704 9781107065611 9781107057043 9781107054905 9781107059535 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.

Handel's oratorios and eighteenth-century thought
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ISBN: 0521402654 052102370X 051147024X 0511832818 9780521402651 9780511470240 9780521023702 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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In this wide-ranging and challenging book, Ruth Smith shows that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realized. She explores literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's works as conduits for eighteenth-century thought and sensibility. She provides a full picure of Handel's librettists and shows how their oratorio texts express key moral-political preoccupations and engage with contemporary ideological debate. British identity, the need for national unity, the conduct of war, the role of government, the authority of the Bible, the purpose of literature, the effect of art - these and many more concerns are addressed in the librettos. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the relationships between music and its intellectual contexts.


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Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti : reception in Britain 1750-1850
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ISBN: 1009009060 1009006886 1009007122 1009007939 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The music of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederic Handel and Domenico Scarlatti received more performances, publications and appreciation in Britain between 1750-1850 than in any other country during this era. The compositions of these three seminal baroque composers were heard in the numerous public and private concerts that proliferated at this time; edited, arranged and published for professionals and amateurs; written about by scholars and journalists; and used as teaching pieces and in pedagogical treatises. This Element examines the reception of their music during this dynamic period in British musical history, and places the discussion within the context of the artistic, cultural, economic, and political factors that stimulated such passionate interest in 'ancient music.' It also offers a vivid picture of the aesthetic concerns of those musicians and audiences involved with this repertoire, providing insights that help us better understand our own encounters with music of the past.

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Music --- Music appreciation --- History and criticism. --- History --- Bach, Johann Sebastian, --- Handel, George Frideric, --- Scarlatti, Domenico, --- Appreciation --- Analytical guides (Music) --- Appreciation of music --- Musical appreciation --- Musical analysis --- Analysis, appreciation --- Analytical guides --- Instruction and study --- Skarlatti, Domeniko, --- Scarlatti, Giuseppe Domenico, --- Scarlatti, D. --- Skarlatis, D., --- Escarlatti, Domingo, --- Escarlate, Domingo, --- Escarlati, Domingo, --- Händel --- Händel, G. F. --- Haendel, Georg Friedrich --- Händel, Georg Frideric --- Haendel, Georges-Frédéric, --- Gendelʹ, Georg Fridrikh, --- Khendel, G. F. --- Khendel, Georg Fridrikh, --- Händel, Georg Friedrich, --- Handel, G. F. --- Haendel, G. F. --- Haendel, Georg Friedrich, --- Gendelʹ, G. F. --- Handel, Geʼorg-Fridrikh, --- Hendelis, G. F., --- Henderu, Georuku Furīdorihhi, --- Haendel, George Frideric, --- Handel, George Frederick, --- Hendel, George Frideric, --- Handel, George Fredrick, --- הנדל, --- Handel, F. G., --- Bach, Johann Sebastian --- Bakh, Iogann Sebastian, --- Bakh, Y. S., --- Bach, Jean Sébastien, --- Bach, G. S., --- Bach, Jan Sebastian, --- Bachas, J. S., --- Bach, J. S. --- Bahs, Johans Sebatjans, --- Pa-ha, Te, --- Bakh, Ĭ. S. --- Bakh, Ĭokhan Sebastian, --- Bach, Joh. Seb. --- Bakh, Yohan Sebasṭyan, --- Bach, Iohann Sebastian, --- Bahha, J. S., --- Bahha, Yohan Sebasutian, --- Bach, I. S., --- Bach, Juan S., --- Bach, John Sebastian, --- Bach, Giovanni Sebastiano, --- באך, יוהן סבסטיאן

The possessor and the possessed
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ISBN: 1281734748 9786611734749 0300135114 9780300135114 0300087586 9781281734747 9780300087581 Year: 2001 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through him at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece. This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

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Genius --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Composers. --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- Intelligence levels --- History. --- Handel, George Frideric, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Beethoven, Ludwig van, --- Bītʹhūfin, --- Beethoven, L. van --- Beethoven, Louis van, --- Beethoven, Ludvig van, --- Bethovenas, L., --- Betkhoven, Li︠u︡dvig van, --- Beṭhoṿn, Ludṿig ṿan, --- Beethoven, Ludwik van, --- Betkhoven, L. van --- Bētōven, Rūtovihhi van, --- בטהובן --- בעטהאָוון, לודוויג וואן --- ベートベン, ルートビッヒ, --- 贝多芬, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mozart, Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Händel, G. F. --- Haendel, Georg Friedrich --- Händel, Georg Frideric --- Haendel, Georges-Frédéric, --- Gendelʹ, Georg Fridrikh, --- Khendel, G. F. --- Khendel, Georg Fridrikh, --- Händel, Georg Friedrich, --- Handel, G. F. --- Haendel, G. F. --- Haendel, Georg Friedrich, --- Gendelʹ, G. F. --- Handel, Geʼorg-Fridrikh, --- Hendelis, G. F., --- Henderu, Georuku Furīdorihhi, --- Haendel, George Frideric, --- Handel, George Frederick, --- Hendel, George Frideric, --- Handel, George Fredrick, --- הנדל, --- Handel, F. G., --- Composers --- Music --- Music History & Criticism, General --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- E-books --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ, --- Mōtsaruto, --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib, --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Mozart, W. A. --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo, --- Mot︠s︡art, V. A. --- Mocartas, V. A., --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios, --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus, --- Mozzart, Apollo, --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus, --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, --- Mozhate, --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей, --- מוצרט, --- מוצרט, וולפגנג אמדאוס, --- 莫札特, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz, --- Mozart, W.A. --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo --- Mocartas, V. A. --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus --- Mozzart, Apollo --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Mozhate --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz --- Händel

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