Handel

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Formatted for Kindle. Linked Contents.CONTENTSChronologyChapter IBirth and parentage — studies under Zachow at Halle — Hamburg — friendship andduel with Mattheson — Almira — departure for Italy.Chapter IIArrival in Italy — Rodrigo — Rome: Cardinal Ottoboni and theScarlattis — Naples: Venice: Agrippina — appointment at Hanover — London:Rinaldo.Chapter IIISecond visit to London — Italian opera — George I and the WaterMusic — visit to Germany — Canons and the Duke of Chandos — establishment ofthe R

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oyal Academy of Music.Chapter IVBuononcini — Cuzzoni, Faustina, and Senesino — death of George I — TheBeggar’s Opera — collapse of the Academy.Chapter VHandel naturalized — partnership with Heidegger — Esther — the Opera ofthe Nobility — visit to Oxford — opera season at Covent Garden — CharlesJennens — collapse of both opera-houses.Chapter VIBankruptcy and paralysis — visit to Aix-la-Chapelle — the lastoperas — Vauxhall Gardens — Handel’s “borrowings” — visit toIreland — Messiah and other oratorios.Chapter VIIJudas Maccabaeus — Gluck — Thomas Morell — incipient blindness — Telemann andhis garden — last oratorios — death — character and personality.BibliographyHandel’s WorksRecommended Reading

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