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Handel on the Stage (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,873
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Handel on the Stage (Hardcover): David Kimbell

Handel on the Stage (Hardcover)

David Kimbell

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Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2016
Authors: David Kimbell
Dimensions: 184 x 253 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-81841-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)
LSN: 0-521-81841-9
Barcode: 9780521818414

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