Handel
Subtitle: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780521544863
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Music/Songbooks; Music; General; Music / General; Genres & Styles - Classical; 1685-1759; Handel, George Frideric,; Music for the royal fireworks; Water music
First sentence: 'I am myself alone' reads the Shakespearian inscription on a scroll decorating Goupy's caricature of Handel as a bewigged and well-dressed hog playing the organ, with the remnants of gluttony evident all around him (Plate 1).