George Frideric Handel

A Life with Friends

Ellen T. Harris

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English

Norton
31 October 2014

Music; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel's music reached from court to theatre, echoed in cathedrals and filled crowded taverns. But the man himself is a mystery.

Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and provided for their preservation in his will, very little of an intimate nature survives. In search of the private man behind the public persona, Ellen T. Harris has tracked down the letters, diaries, financial accounts, court cases and other documents connected with the composer's closest friends.

The result is a tightly woven tapestry of London life in the first half of the eighteenth century, one that weaves together vibrant descriptions of Handel's music with stories of loyalty, cunning and betrayal. With this new approach, Harris reveals an ambitious, shrewd, generous, brilliant and flawed man.

By: Ellen T. Harris
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 964g
ISBN: 9780393088953
ISBN 10: 0393088952
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 31 October 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ellen T. Harris is a professor emeritus at MIT. She has spoken at the Lincoln Center, appeared on PBS's NewsHour and BBC Radio 3 and is a 2013 - 14 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer.

Reviews for George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends

"""...a sequence of thematic chapters, each with its own timeline, charting the composer's career through others' eyes and ears, evoking more vividly than most the society in which Handel moved."" -- Hugh Canning, Sound Choices 2014 - The Sunday Times"