George Frideric Handel
Author: first_name: Herbert Francis
last_name: Peyser
Language: English
Year: 1951

Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and goings that any attempt to force even a small part of it into the frame of a tiny, unpretentious booklet of the present sort is as hopeless as it is presumptuous....  Handel was time and again a composer of exquisitely delicate colorations, and sensuous style, not to say a largely unsus