George Frideric Handel : a life with friends

Zusammenfassung: During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel's music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself - known to most as the composer of Messiah - is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document - Handel's will - offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In it, he remembers not only family and close colleagues but also neighborhood friends. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down the letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents connected to these bequests. The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that interlaces vibrant descriptions of Handel's music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal. With this wholly new approach, Harris has achieved something greater than biography. Layering the interconnecting stories of Handel's friends like the subjects and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man, hiding in full view behind his public persona

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780393088953 ; 0393088952
• Maße: 25 cm
• Umfang: xxi, 472 Seiten
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Illustrationen ; Includes bibliographical references and index

Klassifikation und Themen

• Schlagwort: Händel, Georg Friedrich ; Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 ; Composers ; Biography

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): New York
• (wer): W.W. Norton & Company
• (wann): 2014
• Urheber: Harris, Ellen T.

Weitere Informationen

• Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents note continued: (1737--1759: First "paralytic attack," a look back to Admeto, then madness in Saul and Hercules, and Jephtha to The Triumph of Time and Truth) -- 11. Wills and Legacies
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