The Life of George Frederick Handel: With an Introductory Notice by George Grove

William Smith Rockstro; George Grove

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107300149

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With an Introductory Notice by George Grove

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William Smith Rockstro
Introduction by George Grove

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2014
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781107300149
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107300149

Subjects:: Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, Music: General Interest
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Music

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Beloved not only in Britain, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) is admired as a composer the world over. His inventive and sensitive melodic genius and his exuberant brilliance in depicting the spectacular are best displayed in his Messiah and Zadok the Priest. Larger than life, Handel impressed all who met him and was adept at promoting his works, arranging for their publication and even selling them from his home in London's Brook Street. His dogged determination to triumph over the many reverses of his career and the fickle enthusiasms of the Georgian public is the stuff of three-volume novels. This sympathetic and highly readable biography by the composer and author William Smith Rockstro (1823–95) was first published in 1883. Wherever possible, autograph manuscripts have been consulted and the book contains the first detailed catalogue of Handel's output. Among other works, Rockstro's biography of Mendelssohn is also reissued in this series.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

NOTICE
pp v-x

AUTHOR'S PREFACE
pp xi-xii

Contents
pp xiii-xvi

CHAP. I - THE HANDEL FAMILY
pp 1-6

CHAP. II - GEORG FRIEDRICH'S CHILDHOOD
pp 7-11

CHAP. III - THE JOURNEY TO BERLIN
pp 12-17

CHAP. IV - THE STUDENT-ORGANIST
pp 18-23

CHAP. V - THE JOURNEY TO HAMBURG
pp 24-33

CHAP. VI - ‘ALMIRA’
pp 34-41

CHAP. VII - THE JOURNEY TO ITALY
pp 42-46

CHAP. VIII - THE FIRST ITALIAN OPERA
pp 47-55

CHAP. IX - THE FIRST VISIT TO LONDON
pp 56-72

CHAP. X - IN LONDON AND HANOVER
pp 73-80

CHAP. XI - THE UTRECHT TE DEUM
pp 81-86

CHAP. XII - AT BURLINGTON HOUSE
pp 87-95

CHAP. XIII - CONCERNING THE ‘WATER MUSICK’
pp 96-99

CHAP. XIV - THE SECOND PASSION ORATORIO
pp 100-102

CHAP. XV - CONCERNING THE DUKE OF CHANDOS
pp 103-121

CHAP. XVI - CONCERNING THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC
pp 122-133

CHAP. XVII - CONCERNING THE SUCCESS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC
pp 134-143

CHAP. XVIII - CUZZONI AND FAUSTINA
pp 144-150

CHAP. XIX - CONCERNING THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC
pp 151-158

CHAP. XX - HANDEL AS MANAGER
pp 159-168

CHAP. XXI - CONCERNING THE REVIVAL OF ‘ESTHER,’ AND ‘ACIS AND GALATEA’
pp 169-179

CHAP. XXII - THE THREATENING STORM
pp 180-188

CHAP. XXIII - THE RIVAL OPERAS
pp 189-198

CHAP. XXIV - PERFORMANCES WITHOUT DRAMATIC ACTION
pp 199-207

CHAP. XXV - THE LAST ITALIAN OPERAS
pp 208-214

CHAP. XXVI - ‘SAUL.’ ‘ISRAEL IN EGYPT’
pp 215-220

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