George Frideric Handel: His Personality & His TimesCassell Limited, 1923 - 378 pàgines |
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... talk everywhere . A boy of sixteen named Andreas Rudloff , the son of a peasant of Maschvritz , near Halle , held in his mouth a fair - sized knife with a stag - horn handle . He had the misfortune to fall and the knife was pushed down ...
... talk everywhere . A boy of sixteen named Andreas Rudloff , the son of a peasant of Maschvritz , near Halle , held in his mouth a fair - sized knife with a stag - horn handle . He had the misfortune to fall and the knife was pushed down ...
Pàgina 31
... talk throughout Germany . Some write of the boy Handel sitting on Ariosti's knee and being trained to the difficult ways of music , but at that period the Dominican monk was still in Italy . When Handel , now at eleven years of age ...
... talk throughout Germany . Some write of the boy Handel sitting on Ariosti's knee and being trained to the difficult ways of music , but at that period the Dominican monk was still in Italy . When Handel , now at eleven years of age ...
Pàgina 54
... talk about . It was evident that Keiser , and even Matthe- son , might have to look to their laurels . Handel was fired with zeal by the reception of Almira , and he set about composing a new work to succeed it . He meant to strike ...
... talk about . It was evident that Keiser , and even Matthe- son , might have to look to their laurels . Handel was fired with zeal by the reception of Almira , and he set about composing a new work to succeed it . He meant to strike ...
Pàgina 72
... talk of musical Rome . The young composer - only just past his twenty - third birthday - had , in spite of his simple Lutheran faith , blended with the Cardinals of Rome , and brought them to his feet in acclamation . This , his very ...
... talk of musical Rome . The young composer - only just past his twenty - third birthday - had , in spite of his simple Lutheran faith , blended with the Cardinals of Rome , and brought them to his feet in acclamation . This , his very ...
Pàgina 91
... talk of musical London at this period were the coal- house concerts of Thomas Britton . There has never been anyone like Britton before or since . He started life carrying a basket of coal on his back round the poorer districts , and ...
... talk of musical London at this period were the coal- house concerts of Thomas Britton . There has never been anyone like Britton before or since . He started life carrying a basket of coal on his back round the poorer districts , and ...
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Pàgina 107 - ... the king attended assiduously on each occasion. The baron addressed himself therefore to Heidegger, a Suisse by nationality, but the most intelligent agent the nobility could have for their pleasures. Heidegger answered that much as he was eager to oblige his majesty, he must reserve the subscription for the big enterprises, to wit. the masquerades, each of which was worth from 300 to 400 guineas to him. "Baron Kilmanseck, seeing that HM was vexed about these difficulties, resolved to give the...
Pàgina 170 - 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 158 - To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled...
Pàgina 198 - Voices and Instruments. NB There will be no Action on the Stage, but the House will be fitted up in a decent Manner, for the Audience.
Pàgina 198 - By his Majesty's command, at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, on Tuesday the 2nd. day of May, will be performed the sacred story of Esther; an oratorio in English, formerly composed by Mr. Handel, and now revised by him with several additions, and to be performed by a great number of voices and instruments.
Pàgina 107 - Baron Kilmanseck, seeing that HM was vexed about these difficulties, resolved to give the concert on the river at his own expense, and so the concert took place the day before yesterday. The King entered his barge about eight o'clock with the Duchess of Bolton, the Countess of Godolphin, Mad. de Kilmanseck, Mad. Were, and the Earl of Orkney, gentleman of the King's Bedchamber who was on guard. " By the side of the Royal barge was that of the musicians to the number of 50 who played all kinds of instruments,...
Pàgina 293 - 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 336 - 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 202 - 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 310 - ... the fore-part of the day reviewed the three regiments of Footguards from the garden wall of St. James's, witnessed the fireworks from a pavilion in the Park which had been erected for his reception. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who were on bad terms with the King, kept aloof, and saw the display from the house of the Earl of Middlesex, in Arlington Street. The performance began with a grand military overture, composed by Handel, in which "one hundred cannon, fired singly with the music,"...