Handel in London - The Making of a Genius
epub | 26.55 MB | English | Author :Jane Glover | B07BKZ2HYN | 2018 | Pan Macmillan UK

Book Description :

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 Georg Friederich 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, dra 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...

Category : | Classical Musician Biographies, Historical German Biographies, Classical Music