Handel
By: by R.A. Streatfield
Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge revivals
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781315124254
Copyright date: 1909
Subjects: Composers; Biography; MUSIC; History & Criticism; Genres & Styles; Opera
Description: "It is the inner meaning of Handel's music, and its power of searching the profoundest recesses of the soul, that in the following pages I have endeavoured, so far as I am able, to elucidate. Its merely technical qualities have already been discussed enough and to spare. Books on Handel written by musicians already abound, but musicians as a rule take more interest in the means by which an end is attained than the end itself. They tell us a great deal about the methods by which a composer expresses himself, but very little about what he actually has to express. I have tried, how feebly and with what little success no one knows better than myself, to find the man Handel in his music, to trace his character, his view of life, his thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, as they are set forth in his works."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I Handel at Ha ll e, 1685-1703; title: chapter II HANDEL AT HAMBURG, 1703-1706; title: chapter III HANDEL IN ITALY, 1706-1710; title: chapter IV Handel{u2019}s F irst V isit to E ngland, 1710-1711; title: chapter V Handel{u2019}s Second V isit to E ngland, 1712-1717; title: chapter VI CANONS AND THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 1718-1726; title: chapter VII FAUSTINA AND CUZZONI, 1726-1728; title: chapter VIII HANDEL AS MANAGER, 1728-1732; title: chapter IX STRUGGLES AND DEFEATS, 1732-1737; title: chapter X E cce Convertimur ad Gentes ! 1737-1741; title: chapter XI HANDEL IN IRELAND, 1741-1742; title: chapter XII T he Second Bankruptcy, 1742-1745; title: chapter XIII T he T urn of th e T ide, 1745-1751; title: chapter XIV HANDEL{u2019}S BLINDNESS AND DEATH, 1751-1759; title: chapter XV T he Operas; title: chapter XVI Oratorios and other Choral W orks; title: chapter XVII Th e M e ss ia h; title: chapter XVIII T he L ater Oratorios; title: chapter XIX Instrumental W orks.