George Frideric Handel: His Personality & His TimesHoughton Mifflin, 1923 - 378 pàgines |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 82.
Pàgina xv
... WORDS OF " THEODORA " IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF THE WRITER , THOMAS MORELL • 314 SCORE OF " JEPHTHA , " HANDEL'S LAST ORATORIO . JOHN CHRISTOPHER SMITH • 320 • • 324 THE LAST PORTRAIT OF HANDEL [ Colour ] · THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FIRST ...
... WORDS OF " THEODORA " IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF THE WRITER , THOMAS MORELL • 314 SCORE OF " JEPHTHA , " HANDEL'S LAST ORATORIO . JOHN CHRISTOPHER SMITH • 320 • • 324 THE LAST PORTRAIT OF HANDEL [ Colour ] · THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FIRST ...
Pàgina 4
... word was his bond . Valentine Handel made money , and he saved money . As proof of it , let it be said that he bought two of the principal houses in the adjoining main street . No tradesman in those days could afford to buy houses ...
... word was his bond . Valentine Handel made money , and he saved money . As proof of it , let it be said that he bought two of the principal houses in the adjoining main street . No tradesman in those days could afford to buy houses ...
Pàgina 17
... words must have been very present in the mind of this man as he waited beside the font while his father - in - law , old Georg Taust , christened this child George Frideric , thereby performing an office which was to be one of the last ...
... words must have been very present in the mind of this man as he waited beside the font while his father - in - law , old Georg Taust , christened this child George Frideric , thereby performing an office which was to be one of the last ...
Pàgina 33
... word of Ger- man , but spoke to the Consort of Germany's ruler in the notes of an instrument , and had no other means of communication with her . That a boy of eleven should come up from what was practi- cally an unknown town , and drop ...
... word of Ger- man , but spoke to the Consort of Germany's ruler in the notes of an instrument , and had no other means of communication with her . That a boy of eleven should come up from what was practi- cally an unknown town , and drop ...
Pàgina 42
... words ; Italian maestri found a welcome ; too often to the detriment of more talented musicians of native birth . But in 1703 the musical glories of Berlin were fading , and Hamburg , a city free from any subjection of its arts to ...
... words ; Italian maestri found a welcome ; too often to the detriment of more talented musicians of native birth . But in 1703 the musical glories of Berlin were fading , and Hamburg , a city free from any subjection of its arts to ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
George Frideric Handel: His Personality and His Times Newman Flower Previsualització no disponible - 1959 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Academy Anna Anthem audience barber-surgeon beauty became began Beggar's Opera Bononcini Brook Street brought Burlington castrato Charles Jennens child chorus Christopher Smith Church Cibber composed concerts Court crowded Cuzzoni death declared Delany Dorothea Duke Earl Elector England English Faramondo Farinelli Faustina favour Foundling Hospital friends G. F. Handel gave genius George Frideric George Frideric Handel George Handel German Halle Hamburg Hanover harpsichord Haymarket Heidegger honour Italian Italy Jennens Jephtha Keiser King King's Theatre knew ladies later letter libretto Liebfrauenkirche lived London Lord married master Mattheson melody Messiah mood Morell musician never night oratorio Ottoboni palace passed performance played Porpora Prince of Wales produced Queen Radamisto rich Rinaldo Rome Royal Schlamm season Senesino singers singing Society song soul stage Strada success Susanna things thought tion town triumph Venice voice wonderful words wrote youth Zachow
Passatges populars
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...