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Handel in London, the making of a genius, Jane Glover

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Handel in London, the making of a genius, Jane Glover

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Handel in London

Responsibility statement

Jane Glover

Sub title

the making of a genius

Summary

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

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