 | Donald Burrows - Music - 2010 - 656 pages
Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a ... | |
 | Romain Rolland - Biography & Autobiography - 2015 - 285 pages
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works ... | |
 | Paul Henry Lang - Music - 2012 - 792 pages
Exceptionally full, detailed study of the man, his music and times. Childhood, music training, years in London; analysis of Messiah and other works; much more. Introduction ... | |
 | Jonathan Bardon - Music - 2015 - 360 pages
18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for ... | |
 | Ellen T. Harris - Music - 2014 - 496 pages
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 ... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 458 pages
Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the ... | |
 | Richard Alexander Streatfield - Music - 2018 - 404 pages
It is the inner meaning of Handel’s music, and its power of searching the profoundest recesses of the soul, that in the following pages I have endeavoured, so far as I am able ... | |
 | Edward Blakeman - Music - 2011 - 338 pages
The Faber Pocket Guide to Handel offers a detailed but accessible exploration of George Frederick Handel, his composition, and his legacy. A larger-than-life figure in his time ... | |
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