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W W Norton & Company Incorporated, Jul 1, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 185 pages

Each has been expanded and updated for book publication and contains a comprehensive work-list, index, and fully revised bibliography, in addition to the definitive view of the subject's life and works.

This is the first full-length study of Handel by Winton Dean, who has long been recognized as the leading expert on the composer and his works, the operas and oratorios in particular. On publication of The New Grove, this discussion of Handel's life and works was hailed as the most authoritative and comprehensive review of the composer to have appeared in print. It charts his career both before and after he moved to England and pays particular attention to his stage works. the work-list by Anthony hicks is the most comprehensive ever published in English.

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References from web pages

George Frideric Handel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Frideric Handel (Friday 23 February 1685 – Saturday 14 April 1759) was a German-born Baroque composer who is famous for his operas, oratorios and ...
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Handel

The Handel Institute Newsletter An Index of Articles in vols. 1–15 ...
Birch, Thomas: see Handel, Thomas Birch and Elizabeth Carter ... Carestini and the Italian Movements in Handel’s English Oratorios, Donald Burrows, ...
gfhandel.org/ hi/ hinewsletter.pdf

Inteneo. George Frideric Handel
with breathtaking rapidity while Handel was still struggling to complete ... difficult years following the stroke or breakdown he suffered in 1737, Handel ...
oq.oxfordjournals.org/ cgi/ reprint/ 6/ 2/ 154.pdf

JSTOR: Handel
Donald Burrows's Handel is the first bi- ography of the composer to take full ad- vantage of the vast amount of scholarly work and specialist writing to ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0027-4380(199709)2%3A54%3A1%3C71%3AH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G

newolde.com - George Frideric Handel (Georg Friederich Händel)
Latest research and information about George Frideric Handel including books, articles, sheet music, recordings, links.
www.newolde.com/ handel.htm

The Cambridge Companion to Handel - Cambridge University Press
Handel is recognised as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise ...
www.cambridge.org/ catalogue/ catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521456135

Handel’s Muse: Patterns of Creation in His Oratorios and Musical ...
Handel literature. It complements similar. studies of other composers, such as Robert ... will stimulate similar research on Handel’s. earlier works. ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ notes/ v059/ 59.4sawyer.pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Handel Burrows [JF]: bookreviews ...
I must confess that I came rather late in life to Handel. ... It was not until I discovered Handel’s keyboard music that I began to become interested again. ...
www.musicweb-international.com/ classRev/ 2005/ Nov05/ Handel_Burrows.htm

Boston Cecilia: Handel, The Choice of Hercules, Program Notes
Even working in far-from-sunny London, Handel possessed all the necessary ... Handel reluctantly found it expedient to turn away from his beloved Italian ...
www.bostoncecilia.org/ prognotes/ handel-choice.html

The gf Handel Database - classicat for Windows
All information contained in the gf Handel database was assembled and organized by Brad Leissa. He is responsible for the accuracy of all information ...
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About the author (1997)

About the Author:
Winton Dean is President of the Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Gesellschraft in Halle, and is a founding Council Member of the Handel Institute. His past books include Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques, Handel and the Operia Seria, and Bizet.

Anthony Hicks combined a career as a computer systems analyst with an influential role as a researcher, critic and author on musical topics, and particularly relating to Handel. His publications include an article on Handel in the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the entries for all the Handel operas in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. A founder-member of the Handel Institute, he also played a leading role as advisor to the Handel Opera Society in London, the Maryland Handel Festival (USA) and the London Handel Festival. His appointment to the Handel Documents Project in 2007 enabled him to fulfil a long-held ambition and he continued to contribute to the project until his death in 2010.

Bibliographic information

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TitleHandel
Composer biography series
New Grove Composer Biography Series
New Grove
AuthorWinton Dean
ContributorAnthony Hicks
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherW W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1997
ISBN0393303586, 9780393303582
Length185 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians
Music / Genres & Styles / Classical
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