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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Harris, Ellen T., author.     Subjects     Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.     Composers -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Harris, Ellen T., author.       by title:      George Frideric Hand...         MARC Display

George Frideric Handel : a life with friends / Ellen T. Harris. by Harris, Ellen T., author. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2014. Subjects Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.   Composers -- Biography. ISBN:  9780393088953 (hbk.) 0393088952 (hbk.) Description:  xxi, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introductions : Handel and his friends -- Before London -- Politics, patronage, and pension -- Commerce and trade -- Music at home -- Marriage, wealth, and social status -- Ambition, law, and friendship -- Making and collecting -- Religion and charity -- Sickness and death -- Wills and legacies. Requests:  0 Summary:  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 to most as the composer of Messiah - is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives. One document - Handel's will - offers us a narrow window into his personal life. In it, he remembers not only family and close colleagues but also neighborhood friends. In search of the private man behind the public figure, Ellen T. Harris has spent years tracking down the letters, diaries, personal accounts, legal cases, and other documents connected to these bequests. The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that interlaces vibrant descriptions of Handel's music with stories of loyalty, cunning, and betrayal. With this wholly new approach, Harris has achieved something greater than biography. Layering the interconnecting stories of Handel's friends like the subjects and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant, and flawed man, hiding in full view behind his public persona.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 780.92 Handel Ha Checked out 06/07/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 780.92 Handel Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 780.92 Handel Ha Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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