George Frideric Handel: His Personality & His TimesHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 378 pàgines |
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Pàgina 64
... soprano to the Florentine Court . She 1 Mainwaring began the story , and Chrysander amplified it . Even Rockstro was caught by the notion of this Court actress hunting down the young composer , and gave credence to the fabrication . 2 ...
... soprano to the Florentine Court . She 1 Mainwaring began the story , and Chrysander amplified it . Even Rockstro was caught by the notion of this Court actress hunting down the young composer , and gave credence to the fabrication . 2 ...
Pàgina 86
... soprano voice which dropped with his later years to a rich contralto . He was a faddist , a dilettante . He wrote poetry . He supped at the richest tables of Venice and Rome . He had all kinds of organising schemes , among which was one ...
... soprano voice which dropped with his later years to a rich contralto . He was a faddist , a dilettante . He wrote poetry . He supped at the richest tables of Venice and Rome . He had all kinds of organising schemes , among which was one ...
Pàgina 95
... soprano of poor execution . Valentini was the only outstanding singer of those who had been heard in Rinaldo they were a poor lot . Not that they can be held responsible for the failure of Rossi's atrocious words , and Handel's hastily ...
... soprano of poor execution . Valentini was the only outstanding singer of those who had been heard in Rinaldo they were a poor lot . Not that they can be held responsible for the failure of Rossi's atrocious words , and Handel's hastily ...
Pàgina 108
... soprano , but after a fit of sickness her voice sank to a contralto.1 Mrs Robinson was one of the romantic figures of the eighteenth- century stage , and almost alone in the fact that her morals from first to last were above reproach ...
... soprano , but after a fit of sickness her voice sank to a contralto.1 Mrs Robinson was one of the romantic figures of the eighteenth- century stage , and almost alone in the fact that her morals from first to last were above reproach ...
Pàgina 127
... soprano , " clear , penetrating and flexible , his intona- tion faultless , his shake perfect . Purity , simplicity and expressiveness were the characteristics of his style . " 1 Senesino took his name from the town of Sienna , in which ...
... soprano , " clear , penetrating and flexible , his intona- tion faultless , his shake perfect . Purity , simplicity and expressiveness were the characteristics of his style . " 1 Senesino took his name from the town of Sienna , in which ...
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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...