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Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel, and Jc Smith - With Select Pieces of Music, Composed by J. C. Smith, Never Before Published (Book)
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Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel, and Jc Smith - With Select Pieces of Music, Composed by J. C. Smith, Never Before Published (Book)
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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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