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Handel in London - The Making of a Genius (Paperback)
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Handel in London - The Making of a Genius (Paperback)
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'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover
and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane
Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better understand
and appreciate Handel’s divinity.' - Donna Leon, author of Handel's
Bestiary and the Inspector Brunetti mysteries.
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 George Frideric 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.
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