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Handel on the Stage (Hardcover)
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Handel on the Stage (Hardcover)
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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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