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George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Ellen T. Harris
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-29 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known
Handel in London
Language: en
Pages: 423
Authors: Jane Glover
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-04 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II
The Lives of George Frideric Handel
Language: en
Pages: 537
Authors: David Hunter
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Patrick Kavanaugh
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Zondervan

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This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additio
Handel as Orpheus
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Ellen T. Harris
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Handel wrote over 100 cantatas, compositions for voice and instruments decsribing the joy and pain of love. In the first comprehensive study of the cantatas, Ha