George Frideric Handel: His Personality & His TimesHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 378 pàgines |
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Pàgina 142
... Not that he was usually per- turbed by violence against him in his later years . But if 1 Lady Mary Montagu , " Letters , " vol . i . p . 336 . The Coming of Cuzzoni he would not admit this excuse 142 George Frideric Handel.
... Not that he was usually per- turbed by violence against him in his later years . But if 1 Lady Mary Montagu , " Letters , " vol . i . p . 336 . The Coming of Cuzzoni he would not admit this excuse 142 George Frideric Handel.
Pàgina 143
... Cuzzoni , a brilliant soprano , then twenty - two years of age , who had made her début at Venice three years previously . Although Handel could not have heard her sing when he brought her from Italy and made a contract with her , her ...
... Cuzzoni , a brilliant soprano , then twenty - two years of age , who had made her début at Venice three years previously . Although Handel could not have heard her sing when he brought her from Italy and made a contract with her , her ...
Pàgina 144
... Cuzzoni in a few minutes . True , she proved troublesome later , but these later conflicts were - from her point of view at any rate - in the nature of a combat against an equal antagonist . Only a romantic fool like Sandoni would ever ...
... Cuzzoni in a few minutes . True , she proved troublesome later , but these later conflicts were - from her point of view at any rate - in the nature of a combat against an equal antagonist . Only a romantic fool like Sandoni would ever ...
Pàgina 145
... Cuzzoni was heard by a London audience . This stumpy little person strutting and strolling on the stage , enthralled it by the sheer wonder of her voice . Handel had excelled him- self with his music - Otho was never surpassed by him in ...
... Cuzzoni was heard by a London audience . This stumpy little person strutting and strolling on the stage , enthralled it by the sheer wonder of her voice . Handel had excelled him- self with his music - Otho was never surpassed by him in ...
Pàgina 147
... in his favour ; even Cuzzoni , who carried his banner high , now also turned against him . In his Calpurnia , which 1 Earl of Egmont MSS . , " vol . i . p . 202 . 2 Ibid . was his last London opera , she had been superb 147.
... in his favour ; even Cuzzoni , who carried his banner high , now also turned against him . In his Calpurnia , which 1 Earl of Egmont MSS . , " vol . i . p . 202 . 2 Ibid . was his last London opera , she had been superb 147.
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Pàgina 168 - The dress of the Queen on this occasion was as fine as the accumulated riches of the City and suburbs could make it ; for besides her own jewels (which were a great number and very valuable) she had on her head and on her shoulders all the pearls she could borrow of the ladies of quality at one end of the town, and on her petticoat all the diamonds she could hire* of the Jews and jewellers at the other...
Pàgina 289 - I went last Friday to Alexander's Feast, but it was such a melancholy pleasure as drew tears of sorrow to see the great though unhappy Handel, dejected wan and dark, sitting by, not playing on the harpsichord, and to think how his light had been spent by being overplied in music's cause.
Pàgina 332 - Hush ! Strife and Quarrel, over the solemn grave ! Sound, trumpets, a mournful march. Fall, dark curtain, upon his pageant, his pride, his grief, his awful tragedy.
Pàgina 198 - Israel, and Strada gave us a Hallelujah of half an Hour long; Senesino and Bertolli made rare work with the English Tongue you would have sworn it had been Welch; I would have wish'd it Italian, that they might have sang with more ease to themselves, since, but for the Name of English, it might as well have been Hebrew.
Pàgina 235 - If the puppy should, in one of his impertinent affected airs of duty and affection, dare to come to St. James's, I order you to go to the scoundrel and tell him I wonder at his impudence for daring to come here; that he has my orders already, and knows my pleasure, and bid him go about his business; for his poor mother is not in a condition to see him act his false, whining, cringing tricks now, nor am I in a humour to bear his impertinence; and bid him trouble me with no more messages, but get out...
Pàgina 198 - Oratorio you see nothing,' says t'other ; so away goes I to the Oratorio, where I saw indeed the finest assembly of People I ever beheld in my...
Pàgina 120 - Work more usefull, which if it meets with a favourable Reception ; I will Still proceed to publish more, reckoning it my duty, with my Small Talent, to serve a Nation from which I have receiv'd so Generous a Protection GF HANDEL.
Pàgina 158 - Allegiance, but hath constantly professed the Protestant Religion, and hath given Testimony of his Loyalty and Fidelity to His Majesty and the Good of this Kingdom. Therefore the Petitioner humbly prays That he may be added to the Bill now pending entitled 'An Act for Naturalisating Louis Sechehaye.
Pàgina 104 - Two fierce black eyes, large and rolling beneath two lofty arched eye-brows, two acres of cheeks spread with crimson, an ocean of neck that overflowed and was not distinguished from the lower part of her body, and no part restrained by stays — no wonder that a child dreaded such an ogress...
Pàgina 285 - Lost, to give Mr. Handel to compose to ; it has cost me a great deal of thought and contrivance...