Handel, George Frideric-

first visit to London, 82, 83 et seq.
friction with Mattheson: the cause,
52

Goupy the artist, and, 205

his admission ticket for Vauxhall
Gardens, 248

his affection for his mother, 159, 180,

181, 188, 189

his band for the Firework Music, 308
his fetishism of the Jews, 298 et seq.
his fund for Decayed Musicians, 252,
261, 266

his last performance of Messiah, 330
his own manager, 216

his singers join the “Opera of the
Nobility," 208

how he tamed Frances Cuzzoni, 144
how he treated libretto for Ezio, 192
in search of artistes, 124, 177
increases price of admission to

theatre, and the result, 204
influence of Steffani on, 80

installed at Cannons, 118

intrigues against, 56, 260, 291
inventory of his effects, 329

invests in South Sea Company, 137
(note)

invited to Oxford, 210
Italian journey of, 60 et seq.
Kapellmeister at Hanover, 80
life at Burlington House, 99
London's last tribute to, 333
meets Gaston de' Medici, 56 et seq.
moves into new theatre, 223
offered Governorship of Foundling
Hospital, 309

partnership with Heidegger, 176 et
seq., 213

patronises Britton's concerts, 91
pension from Queen Anne, 100

plays organ at St John Lateran,
Rome, 62

Handel, George Frideric-

probationary organist at the Dom, 40
pupils of, 49, 52, 56

quarrels with Smith the elder, 324
rebels against Mattheson, 53
rebuked by Morell, and his reply, 299
reception at Oxford, 211

reconciliation with George I, 103 et

seq.

reconciliation with Mattheson, 54
recuperates at Aix-le-Chapelle, 234,
235

refuses Doctor of Music degree, 209
religious music compositions of, 62, 69
resigns post as organist at the Dom,
40

revisits Halle, 81

Scarlatti and, 65 et seq.

second failure of, 284 et seq.
Sir Hans Sloane and, 264
song-writing by, 93
Steffani and, 80

strenuous life of, 131

stricken with blindness, 113, 320, 323

studies for legal profession, 37

suffers from rheumatism, 224-5, 227,

232, 245

teaches harpsichord, 49
Telemann and, 38

value of his estate, 327

withdraws from public life (1741),
268

works of :-

OPERAS:

Admeto (1727), 163
Agrippina (1708), 76
Alcina (1735), 225
Alessandro (1726), 161
Almira (1705), 54
Amadigi (1718), 106
Ariadne (1733), 213
Ariodante (1735), 224
Arminio (1737), 232

plays organ at Weissenfels: the
sequel, 29

Atalanta (1736), 231

Berenice (1737), 233

Handel, George Frideric, works of—

Faramando (1737), 242

Flavio (1723), 146
Floridante (1721), 142
Florindo (1707), 58

Giulio Cæsare (1724), 151
Giustino (1736), 232

Il Pastor Fido (1712), 95
Imeneo (1740), 265
Lotario (1729), 182
Nero (1705), 55
Orlando (1733), 202
Otho (1721), 143
Partenope (1730), 183
Poro (1731), 186
Radamisto (1720), 128
Richard I (1727), 171
Rinaldo (1710), 85
Rodelinda (1725), 156

Rodrigo (1707), 63

Acis and Galatea (1732), 199
Alexander Balus (1747), 300
Alexander's Feast (1735), 227

Athalia (1733), 211
Belshazzar (1745), 291
Deborah (1733), 203
Esther (1732), 139, 195
Hercules (1745), 291
Il Trionfo (1708), 73

Israel in Egypt (1739), 249
Jephtha (1751), 319, 322
Joseph (1744), 288
Joshua (1747), 300

Judas Maccabæus (1746), 297
L'Allegro (1739), 260

La Resurezzione (1708), 69
Messiah (1741), 268, 270
Occasional (1745), 295
Samson (1741), 271, 278

his libretto for Amadigi, 106

his retort to the Bishop of London,
151

introduces Handel, 88

lets King's Theatre to Bononcini,
200, 201

masquerades of, 105, 106, 149,
156

partnership with Handel, 176 et seq.,
213

public action against his masquer-
ades, 150

sees his own double, 150
ugliness of, 88, 90

Heinson, Pastor, 115
Heintz, Wolff, 30

Hendel, Otto, bookseller in Halle, I
(note)

Herbert, Lady Harriet, marries John

influence of, 83

its influence in Germany, 42
Italian opera, Addison on, 83
Italy and the Berlin Court, 34
Handel arrives in, 8, 60
opera in, 177

JENKINS' ear, the story of, 259

Jennens, Charles, librettist, and Handel,

192, 227

and Messiah, 268, 269

battle with Shakespeare commenta-
tors, and an epigram thereon, 269,

270

MACSWINEY,

manager of Queen's

Theatre, 95, 96, 213
Magdeburg, State Archives at, 10 (note)
Mainwaring, Handel's first biographer,

28, 63, 64, 75, 77, 81 (note), 129,
188 (note), 235

and the Water Music romance, 104,
Majorano, Gaetano. See Caffarelli
Malagodi, Signor Giuseppe, 139
Malmesbury Papers, 291, 293
Malone and Jennens, 270
Manchester, Duke of, and Handel, 66
and Addison's criticisms, 87
"Court and Society," 87, 100
English Ambassador at Venice, 66
Marchi, Antonio, his libretto of Alcina,

225

Maria Josepha, Electress of Saxony,

166

Maria Magdalena Church, Hamburg,
45, 46

Marlborough, Duchess of, and Bonon-
cini, 146

and Queen Anne, 100