George Frideric Handel: His Personality & His TimesHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 378 pàgines |
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Pàgina xiii
... MATTHESON • 44 VIEW OF HAMBURG IN 1727 . 54 HANDEL AT THE TIME OF HIS FIRST VISIT TO ITALY 62 CARDINAL OTTOBONI . 66 AARON HILL . 84 PIETRO METASTASIO · 84 DR PEPUSCH · 88 THOMAS BRITTON HEIDEGGER THE EARL OF BURLINGTON • • 98 888 90 96 ...
... MATTHESON • 44 VIEW OF HAMBURG IN 1727 . 54 HANDEL AT THE TIME OF HIS FIRST VISIT TO ITALY 62 CARDINAL OTTOBONI . 66 AARON HILL . 84 PIETRO METASTASIO · 84 DR PEPUSCH · 88 THOMAS BRITTON HEIDEGGER THE EARL OF BURLINGTON • • 98 888 90 96 ...
Pàgina 38
... Mattheson's " Ehren- Pforte . " Telemann was four years older than Handel . His rise was meteoric ; his Passion music a forerunner of the greater qualities of Handel . But his reputation fell away after his death with the same ease as ...
... Mattheson's " Ehren- Pforte . " Telemann was four years older than Handel . His rise was meteoric ; his Passion music a forerunner of the greater qualities of Handel . But his reputation fell away after his death with the same ease as ...
Pàgina 38
... signature at foot of page - as he wrote it in the book of Halle University on the day he entered as a student . Handel as a Student Handel signed his name on the. HANDEL AS A STUDENT . JOHANNES MATTHESON , The friend of Handel's youth .
... signature at foot of page - as he wrote it in the book of Halle University on the day he entered as a student . Handel as a Student Handel signed his name on the. HANDEL AS A STUDENT . JOHANNES MATTHESON , The friend of Handel's youth .
Pàgina 43
... Mattheson . For Handel it was a fortunate meeting , since he possessed the wilful self - assurance that comes to youth at eighteen - assurance which had to suffer many blows in the hard school of experi- 1 State Archive , Hamburg . ence ...
... Mattheson . For Handel it was a fortunate meeting , since he possessed the wilful self - assurance that comes to youth at eighteen - assurance which had to suffer many blows in the hard school of experi- 1 State Archive , Hamburg . ence ...
Pàgina 44
Newman Flower. ence at Hamburg . Fortunate , too , for Mattheson was this meeting , for his association with Handel has kept alive a name which otherwise never would have passed beyond the frontiers of Germany at any rate . Mattheson was ...
Newman Flower. ence at Hamburg . Fortunate , too , for Mattheson was this meeting , for his association with Handel has kept alive a name which otherwise never would have passed beyond the frontiers of Germany at any rate . Mattheson was ...
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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...