Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884.
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George Frederick Handel
Standard Name: Handel, George Frederick
Used Form: George Frideric Handel
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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
. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Maule Machar | |
| 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. Swafford, Joanna. Songs of the Victorians. An Archive. http://www.songsofthevictorians.com/. |
| 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... |
| 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, 1928. 20 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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. 1 , 2001, pp. 203-35. 210n9 Hayden, Ruth. Mrs. Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers. British Museum, 1986. 53-4 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Mary Whateley Darwall |
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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 547, 575, 931
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.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
30
“Messiah: George Frederic Handel”. Signature Magazine: The Official Program of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, 2001–2002, p. 33.
33
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.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
25-8
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
29 (1759): 191, 194
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.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
400-2
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
.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
403-4
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
54 (1784): 391-3
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.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
568
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