Handel The Man and His Music
Handel The Man and His Music
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Charts George Frideric Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London. This biography includes commentaries on his major works, as well as many less familiar pieces by this most inventive, expressive and captivating of composers.
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Handel The Man and His Music by Jonathan Keates
Though unquestionably one of the greatest and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) had received little attention from biographers before Jonathan Keates' masterful "Handel: The Man and His Music" appeared in 1985. This fully updated and expanded edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composer's death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London.For over two decades Handel was absorbed in London's heady but precarious operatic world. But even his phenomenal energy and determination could not overcome the public's growing indifference to Italian opera in the 1730s, and he turned finally to oratorio, a genre which he made peculiarly his own and in which he created some of his finest works, such as Saul, Messiah, and Jeptha. Jonathan Keates writes with sympathy and penetration about this extraordinary genius, whose career abounded in reversals that would have crushed anyone with less resilience and willpower, but whose influence was to be deeply felt by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Interwoven with the account of Handel's life are commentaries on all his major works, as well as many less familiar pieces by this most inventive, expressive and captivating of composers.
"Will still be valued in a hundred years' time..the book as a whole is an event" -- Peter Phillips Spectator "Full of extremely penetrating, well-judged observations on both man and music." -- Nicholas Kenyon The Times "His creative engagement sympathetically draws out Handel's motivation as a composer." -- Tom Sutcliffe Guardian
Jonathan Keates is a prizewinning biographer and novelist, well known as a reviewer and as a writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224082020 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224082027 |
| Title | Handel The Man and His Music |
| Author | Jonathan Keates |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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