عنوان

The lives of George Frideric Handel /

(Number (ISBN

1782046429

(Number (ISBN

1782047301

(Number (ISBN

9781782046424

(Number (ISBN

9781782047308

Erroneous ISBN

1783270616

Erroneous ISBN

9781783270613

Title Proper

The lives of George Frideric Handel /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

David Hunter.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Woodbridge, Suffolk :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Boydell Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvii, 515 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, portraits

Series Title

Music in Britain, 1600-2000 ;

Volume Designation

13

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Frontcover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Editorial Conventions; Selected English-Language Biographies of Handel; Introduction; 1 The Audience: Three Broad Categories, Three Gross Errors; 2 The Audience: Partner and Problem; 3 Musicians and other Occupational Hazards; 4 Patrons and Pensions; 5 Musical Genres and Compositional Practices; 6 Self and Health; 7 Self and Friends; 8 Nations and Stories; 9 Biographers' Stories; Conclusion; Bibliography (compiled by Rose M. Mason); Index.

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Text of Note

To evaluate the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say? This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, not only to produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of biography and dissemination by using Handel's life and lives as a case study. By examining the images of Handel to be found in biographies and music histories - the genius, the religious profound, the master of musical styles, the distiller into music of English sentiment, the glorifier of the Hanoverians, the hymner of the middle class, the independent, the prodigious, the generous, the sexless, the successful, the wealthy, the bankrupt, the pious, the crude, the heroic, the devious, the battler of ill-fortune, the moral exemplar - and by adding new factual information, David Hunter shows how events are manipulated into stories and tropes. One such trope has been employed to portray numerous persons as Handel's enemies regardless of whether Handel considered them as such. Picking apart the writing of Handel's biographers and other reporters, Hunter exposes the narrative underpinnings - the lies, confusions, presumptions, and conclusions, whether direct and inferred or assumed - to show how Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories have moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

22573/ctt181dmhj

Stock Number

FDCEEADC-38A4-4179-B190-5B94250F2545

Title

Lives of George Frideric Handel.

International Standard Book Number

9781783270613

Handel, George Frideric,1685-1759.

Handel, George Frideric,1685-1759.

Composers, Biography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Composers & Musicians.

Composers.

MUSIC-- Genres & Styles-- Classical.

MUSIC-- Reference.

AVH

BGF

BIO004000

MUS-- 006000

MUS-- 033000

MUS006000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Hunter, David,1954-

Date of Transaction

20200823053730.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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