Swafford, Joanna. Songs of the Victorians. An Archive. http://www.songsofthevictorians.com/.
George Frederick Handel
Standard Name: Handel, George Frederick
Used Form: George Frideric Handel
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Julia Young | The title-page has two epigraphs. The first begins with two lines from Milton
's Il Penseroso (perhaps alluding to its musical setting by Handel
), which go on to link the nightingale with Anna... |
| Characters | Jeanette Winterson | The novel's three apparently unconnected characters are breast surgeon Handel (erstwhile boy chorister, castrato, and Catholic priest; not the same as yet reminiscent of George Frederick Handel
), Picasso (a young woman whose family opposes... |
| Textual Production | Jeanette Winterson | Her contributors included Ali Smith
on Beethoven
's Fidelio, Anne Enright
on Dvorak
's Rusalka, Jackie Kay
on Janacek
's The Makropulos Case, Joanna Trollope
on Donizetti
's L'Elisir d'Amore, Kate Atkinson |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Tollet | Sir Tanfield Leman
in the Monthly Review approached this volume with some gendered condescension (which may be the explanation for his finding ET
by implication excessively serious). He pronounced that she was not in the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The Lily of Annandale is a retelling of the ballad Helen of Kirkconnel (who was accidentally killed by one of her rival lovers taking aim at the other). How to be Rid of a Wife... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Savage | He had been organist at the parish church of Finchley, and had sung in Handel
's operas and oratorios. His new position meant the choirboys lodged in his house. William got excellent results from his... |
| Textual Production | Anne Ridler | AR
's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante
and Eugenio Montale
. She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover
, who later... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Norton | Juanita sounds overtly like a conventional song of love-longing, but a musical allusion to Handel
'opera Rinaldo (the aria Lascia ch'io pianga) invokes the idea of a woman imprisoned and suffering. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Maule Machar | |
| Textual Features | Mary Lamb | Charles
, she observes (echoing a published confession of his own), has no ear. For him to voice criticism of Handel
or of the gamut is ridiculous: he does not know what he is talking... |
| Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
, aged nineteen, sang professionally for the first time, in a concert featuring music by Handel
; she was too nervous to do herself justice. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Caroline Herschel | |
| Occupation | Caroline Herschel | Her career in this field began strongly, although copying music for her brother made it hard for her to find practising time. By 1778 she had become the lead singer in public concerts at the... |
| Leisure and Society | Frances Ridley Havergal | FRH
could play much of Handel
, Beethoven
, and Mendelssohn
from memory, and her powers as a solo singer were very much in request in the Philharmonic Society at Kidderminster. Enock, Esther E. Frances Ridley Havergal. Pickering and Inglis. 20 |
| Textual Production | Mary Delany | MD
wrote for Handel
a libretto adapted from Milton
's Paradise Lost; it has not been traced. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Delany, Mary. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany. Editor Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, R. Bentley. II: 280 |
Timeline
2 April 1720: Handel and the Royal Academy of Music opened...
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2 April 1720
Handel
and the Royal Academy of Music
opened the first season of Italian opera in several years at the Haymarket
. The Royal Academy of Music continued offering opera there until 1728.
13 April 1742: The Messiah, an oratorio by George Frederic...
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13 April 1742
The Messiah, an oratorio by George Frederic Handel
, premiered at the Old Fishamble Street Music Hall in Dublin; following a public rehearsal the day before, the crowded opening was a triumph.
21 April 1749: Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks was...
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21 April 1749
Handel
's Music for the Royal Fireworks was first heard; its audience was one of all classes at Vauxhall Gardens, London.
Shortly before 20 April 1759: George Frederick Handel died after spending...
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Shortly before 20 April 1759
George Frederick Handel
died after spending the best years of his career in England, specialising first in Italian opera, then in oratorio.
1776: A group of upper-class men founded the Concert...
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1776
A group of upper-class men founded the Concert of Antient Music
, to put on performances of Purcell
, Handel
(who was by now out of fashion), and seventeenth-century Italian composers.
26-29 May 1784: The first Handel Commemmoration Concert marked...
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26-29 May 1784
The first Handel
Commemmoration Concert marked the centenary of his birth: three immensely popular charity performances were given at Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon
.
1800: At a Salisbury music festival, a concert...
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1800
At a Salisbury music festival, a concert in the cathedral featuring work by Handel
and Haydn
drew an audience of 970.
Texts
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