Editor: Donald Burrows, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Date Published: December 1997
Format: Paperback
Part of Cambridge Companions to Music

Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover.
All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging, specially-commissioned essays cover topics from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice. The background to Handel's musical career is a major theme of the volume.

• Provides an accessible overview of the music and life of Handel
• Covers all the major works and the minor repertoire as well
• Contains informative illustrations and a full chronology of Handel and his time
• Provides an accessible overview of the music and life of Handel
• Handel is very popular with amateurs and music lovers
• Many choral groups perform the Messiah over the Christmas period

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