George Frederick Handel

Standard Name: Handel, George Frederick
Used Form: George Frideric Handel

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Occupation Mary Delany
MD was still playing the harpsichord (performing for friends in private) until well into her eighties.
Linney, Verna. “A Passion for Art, a Passion for Botany: Mary Delany and her Floral ’Mosaiks’”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
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, pp. 203-35.
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She was a patron of Handel ,
Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum.
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and she tried to encourage Irish manufacture against competition from...
Textual Production Mary Delany
MD was a great admirer of Handel and in her letters often mentions attending performances of his music. She wrote of her efforts on the libretto that it has cost me a great deal of...
Textual Features Mary Whateley Darwall
In this pastoral elegy the poet links the dead woman with the famous dead: writers, thinkers and artists, Newton , Milton , Thomson , Lely , and Handel .
Education Anna Eliza Bray
Her father taught her music and she had the privilege of learning to play on a family treasure, a spinet originally belonging to Handel .
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
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Textual Production Anna Eliza Bray
During the summer and autumn of 1834 AEB began Handel : His Life, Personal and Professional, with some thoughts on sacred music.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
It was eventually completed and published in 1857, almost one hundred years...
Intertextuality and Influence Patricia Beer
This poem's subject is the love-affair of Semele with Jove. Semele wished to see Jove in his true, not assumed form; when he complied and appeared as godhead she was burned to death in his...

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