George Frideric Handel: His Personality & His TimesHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 378 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... interest to other ardent lovers of the Master , and in this belief I attempted this book . The accepted story of the Water Music , for instance , which began with Mainwaring , and has gone on ever since , is quite incorrect , as recent ...
... interest to other ardent lovers of the Master , and in this belief I attempted this book . The accepted story of the Water Music , for instance , which began with Mainwaring , and has gone on ever since , is quite incorrect , as recent ...
Pàgina viii
... interest , especially concerning Jupiter in Argos , that mystery work of Handel's which was never performed , and of which I have the copy of the songs Smith made for him . There are many other details concerning his life and death ...
... interest , especially concerning Jupiter in Argos , that mystery work of Handel's which was never performed , and of which I have the copy of the songs Smith made for him . There are many other details concerning his life and death ...
Pàgina 8
... interest in what had now become her husband's business . But when they had been married nine years Handel had been accepted so definitely as George Handel , the Barber - Surgeon the finest barber 8 George Frideric Handel.
... interest in what had now become her husband's business . But when they had been married nine years Handel had been accepted so definitely as George Handel , the Barber - Surgeon the finest barber 8 George Frideric Handel.
Pàgina 15
... interest ! How the plague could have been turned into a money - making concern is a problem . The members were required to invoke daily prayer hours in their establishments , and pray regularly in places of worship ; to follow with ...
... interest ! How the plague could have been turned into a money - making concern is a problem . The members were required to invoke daily prayer hours in their establishments , and pray regularly in places of worship ; to follow with ...
Pàgina 18
... interest in Church music , she did not see him fascinated by the first dawning understanding of the notes of the organ . He went to the Liebfrauenkirche regularly ; to Frau Handel his object in doing so was to serve his Maker as he had ...
... interest in Church music , she did not see him fascinated by the first dawning understanding of the notes of the organ . He went to the Liebfrauenkirche regularly ; to Frau Handel his object in doing so was to serve his Maker as he had ...
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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...