Handel: At the Court of Kings

Author: Opal Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933573038
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
With clarity and with admirable simplicity, keyed to the understanding of children, Opal Wheeler has traced the many-sided career of George Frederic Handel, whose restless nature vied always with his tremendous ability as a composer and director.Handel?s strange boyhood, clouded by the fact that his father did not want him to become a musician, and the later years when, thanks to the patronage of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, his music was played before the greatest music lovers of Europe ? all this makes absorbing reading. The selections of Handel?s music included here are those best understood and most apt to be mastered by young musicians. One evening, back in 1691, conservative Doctor Handel was shocked and dismayed to find his small son carrying the torch at the head of a band of singers wandering through the little town of Halle. The good doctor never quite understood the all-consuming love of music which drove his son from childhood on and on to the great heights he eventually attained as the beloved Father of the Oratorio, the composer of the magnificent MESSIAH. Opal Wheeler has given us here the most finished, most completely satisfying book on her list of fine music biographies. Handel at the Court of Kings should be a favorite of all children who love music, whether they are young musicians themselves or not.

Handel, Who Knew What He Liked

Author: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763666009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
In this biography, the man who would later compose some of the world's most beautiful music is shown to have once been a stubborn little boy with a mind of his own.

Handel at the Court of Kings. --

Author: Opal Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description

Handel at the Court of Kings

Author: Judy Wilcox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933573045
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Intended to complement Opal Wheeler classic Handel at the Court of Kings. Packed with timelines, maps, reading comprehension questions, character quality highlights, and extra tidbits of information about Handel's life and his music. Written for children in grades K-6, this study guide makes a great addition to any study of master composers.

Music at German Courts, 1715-1760

Author: Samantha Owens
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843835983
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 506

Book Description
Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sight of what these Kapellen had in common. What was musical life at German courts really like during the eighteenth century? Were musical ensembles as diverse as the Holy Roman Empire's kaleidoscopic political landscape? Through a series of individual case studies contributed by leading scholars from Germany, Poland, the United States, Canada, and Australia, this book investigates the realities of musical life at fifteen German courts of varied size (ranging from kingdoms to principalities), religious denomination, and geographical location. Significant shifts that occurred in the artistic priorities of each court are presented through a series of "snapshots"- in effect "core sample" years - which highlight both individualand shared patterns of development and decline. What emerges from the wealth of primary source material examined in this volume is an in-depth picture of music-making within the daily life of individual courts, featuring acast of music directors, instrumentalists, and vocalists, together with numerous support staff drawn from across Europe. Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sight of what these Kapellen had in common. SAMANTHA OWENS is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. BARBARA M. REUL is Associate Professor of Musicology at Luther College, University of Regina, Canada. JANICE B. STOCKIGT is a Principal Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Australia. Contributors: DIETER KIRSCH, URSULA KRAMER, MICHAEL MAUL, MARY OLESKIEWICZ, SAMANTHA OWENS, RASHID-S. PEGAH, BÄRBEL PELKER, BARBARA M. REUL, WOLFGANG RUF, BERT SIEGMUND, JANICE B. STOCKIGT, MICHAEL TALBOT, RÜDIGER THOMSEN-FÜRST, ALINA ZORAWSKA-WITKOWSKA, STEVEN ZOHN

Handel in London

Author: Jane Glover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681779471
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II and the composer was George Freidrich Handel. Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of music activity in London for the next four decades, composing masterpiece after masterpiece, whether the glorious coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest, operas such as Rinaldo and Alcina or the great oratorios, culminating, of course, in Messiah. Here, Jane Glover, who has conducted Handel’s work in opera houses and concert halls throughout the world, draws on her profound understanding of music and musicians to tell Handel’s story. It is a story of music-making and musicianship, but also of courts and cabals of theatrical rivalries and of eighteenth-century society. It is also, of course the story of some of the most remarkable music ever written, music that has been played and sung, and loved, in this country—and throughout the world—for three hundred years.

Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti

Author: Deborah W. Rooke
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199279284
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Combining the insights of present-day biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, this book examines the libretti of ten of Handel's Israelite oratorios and evaluates the relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based.

Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers (Spring 2017 Set Of 4)

Author: Scholastic Library Publishing
Publisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780531226162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
These books are without a doubt the definitive - and most entertaining - biographies of great composers for young readers. Author/artist Mike Venezia provides hilarious, cartoon-style illustrations to complement his easy-to-read text. These books will help children get to know the world's greatest composers

Hallelujah Handel

Author: Douglas Cowling
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439058506
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
In eighteenth-century London, a young orphan who sings like an angel but is unable to speak is befriended by the great composer, George Frederick Handel, and finds his way home. 18,000 first printing.

Sebastian Bach: The Boy from Thuringia

Author: Opal Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974650517
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
A fictional life of Bach for children, with excerpts from his music arranged for the piano.