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Handel - The Man & His Music (Paperback)
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Handel - The Man & His Music (Paperback)
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List price R634
Loot Price R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
You Save R71 (11%)
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Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a
masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and
updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th
anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's
life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful
Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London
where he made his permanent home. For over two decades Handel was
absorbed in London's heady but precarious operatic world. But even
his phenomenal energy and determination could not overcome the
public's growing indifference to Italian opera in the 1730s, and he
turned finally to oratorio, a genre which he made peculiarly his
own and in which he created some of his finest works, such as Saul,
Messiah, Belshazzar and Jephtha. Over the last two decades a
complete revolution in Handel's status has taken place. He is now
seen both as a titanic figure in music, whose compositions have
found a permanent place in the international repertoire, and as one
of the world's favourite composers, with snatches of his work
accompanying weddings, funerals and television commercials the
world over. Skillfully interwoven with the account of Handel's life
are commentaries on all his major works, as well as many less
familiar pieces by this most inventive, expressive and captivating
of composers. Handel was an extraordinary genius whose career
abounded in reversals that would have crushed anyone with less
resilience and will power, and Jonathan Keates writes about his
life and work with sympathy and scrutiny.
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