The Life of George Frederick Handel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1883 - 452 páginas |
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Acis and Galatea afterwards Airs Anthem Aria Arnold Autograph Bass beautiful Buckingham Palace Buononcini Burney caret CHAPTER character Charles Jennens Chorus Chrysander Composer Composer's Composition Concerto Conducting Score contains Contralto copy Covent Garden Cuzzoni delight Deum dramatic Dublin edition Ehren-Pforte English Foundling Hospital Fugue G Minor G. F. Handel genius Georg Friedrich George Frederick Handel GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL German Handel Society Halle Hamburg Handel Society handwriting Harpsichord Hawkins honour instrument Italian Opera K.'s Th King King's Theatre later libretto London Lord Mainwaring Mattheson Melody Messiah Music Musicians Oratorio Orchestra Organ Organist original Overture Paolo Rolli Passion performance period pieces played present Prince printed produced Radamisto Recitative Rinaldo Royal Collection Sacred scarcely Schoelcher season Senesino Serenata Signora Sigra Singers Sketches Smith Solo Sonata Songs Soprano style sung Tenor tickets tion Violin voice volume Walsh words written
Passagens conhecidas
Página 168 - He played so truly. So by error to his fate They all consented; But viewing him since (alas, too late) They have repented. And have sought (to give new birth) In baths to steep him; But, being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him.
Página 180 - Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.' Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Página 230 - The Nobility did me the Honour to make amongst themselves a Subscription for 6 Nights, which did fill a Room of 600 Persons, so that I needed not sell one single Ticket at the door, and without Vanity the Performance was received with a general Approbation.
Página 279 - My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord : and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy Name for ever and ever.
Página 389 - let us sit down and listen to this piece ; I want to know your opinion of it.' Down they sat ; and after some time the old parson, turning to his companion, said, ' It is not worth listening to— it's very poor stuff.
Página 234 - I shall show you a collection I gave Handel, called Messiah, which I value highly, and he has made a fine entertainment of it, though not so good as he might and ought to have done. I have with great difficulty made him correct some of the grossest faults in the composition. But he retained his overture obstinately, in which there are some passages far unworthy of Handel, but much more unworthy of The Messiah"* What a curious example of the relations which exist between cotemporaries ! Is it not...
Página 227 - Chester ; which, on account of the wind being unfavourable for his embarking at Parkgate, was several days. During this time, he applied to Mr. Baker, the organist, my first...
Página 361 - DEAR SIR, — According to your request to me when you left London, that I would let you know when our good friend departed this life, on Saturday last at 8 o'clock in the morn died the great and good Mr. Handel. He was sensible to the last moment ; made a codicil to his will on Tuesday, ordered to be buried privately in Westminster Abbey, and a monument not to exceed £600 for him. I had the pleasure to reconcile him to his old friends ; he saw them...
Página 144 - She in a manner invented a new kind of singing, by running divisions with a neatness and velocity which astonished all who heard her. She had the art of sustaining a note longer, in the opinion of the public, than any other singer, by taking her breath imperceptibly.
Página 392 - let me know when you will do that, and I will advertise it ; for I am sure more people will come to see you jump, than to hear you sing.