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Messiah (The Landmark Library, Band 4) - Softcover

Keates, Jonathan

 
9781786695956: Messiah (The Landmark Library, Band 4)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1786695952 ISBN 13: 9781786695956
Verlag: Head of Zeus, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festivals across England; other composers rushed to rearrange it; it would be commercially recorded on more than 100 occasions.

Jonathan Keates tells the story of the composition and musical afterlife of Handel's masterpiece: he considers the first performances and its place in Handel's output; he looks at the oratorio itself and its relationship with spirituality in the age of the Enlightenment; and he examines why Messiah became such an essential element in the national culture of Britain.

Illustrated with beautiful images, including the original score of the work, Messiah is a richly informative and affectionate celebration of a high-point of Britain's Georgian golden age.

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Jonathan Keates is a historian and writer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a former Trustee of the London Library, and was Chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund. He is the author of a number of acclaimed biographies, including works on Handel, Purcell and Stendhal, as well as several travel books about Italy. For his services to promoting Italian culture in the UK, he was recently honoured with the prestigious Ordine della Stella d'Italia.

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Verlag
Head of Zeus
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786695952
ISBN 13 
9781786695956
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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