Handel (66 page)
Authors: Jonathan Keates
263Â Â Â
Walsh's privilege of copyright
Deutsch p. 488
Walsh's privilege of copyright
Deutsch p. 488
264Â Â Â
Mr Handel is in Music
Charles Avison:
An Essay on Musical Expression
p. 50
Mr Handel is in Music
Charles Avison:
An Essay on Musical Expression
p. 50
265Â Â Â
Plays we have none
Deutsch p. 492
Plays we have none
Deutsch p. 492
11 A British Sixpence
269Â Â Â
Those who know it by heart
Arthur Hutchings:
The Baroque Concerto
p. 304
Those who know it by heart
Arthur Hutchings:
The Baroque Concerto
p. 304
In this masque
Burney op.cit. p. 1004
Burney op.cit. p. 1004
270Â Â Â
When Mr Handel first exhibited
Deutsch pp. 722â23
When Mr Handel first exhibited
Deutsch pp. 722â23
There is not a scene
ibid. p. 733
ibid. p. 733
271Â Â Â
Verses by G.O.
ibid pp. 500â501
Verses by G.O.
ibid pp. 500â501
272Â Â Â
When the Court and Nobility
Deutsch p. 504
When the Court and Nobility
Deutsch p. 504
Handel in Holland
Richard G. King: âHandel's Travels in the Netherlands'
Richard G. King: âHandel's Travels in the Netherlands'
âImeneo'
John H. Roberts: âthe Story of Handel's “Imeneo”'
John H. Roberts: âthe Story of Handel's “Imeneo”'
275Â Â Â
Mrs Pendarves on Monza
Deutsch p. 508
Mrs Pendarves on Monza
Deutsch p. 508
I don't pity Handel
ibid. p. 378
ibid. p. 378
Single Disgust
ibid. pp. 515â17
ibid. pp. 515â17
276Â Â Â
The men of penetration
ibid. p. 520
The men of penetration
ibid. p. 520
Walpole to Mann
ibid. pp. 521â22
ibid. pp. 521â22
Walpole on 3
rd
Duke of Devonshire
see Horace Walpole
: Memoirs and Portraits
, ed. Matthew Hodgart, London, 1963
rd
Duke of Devonshire
see Horace Walpole
: Memoirs and Portraits
, ed. Matthew Hodgart, London, 1963
The most magnificent
Stephen Barlow:
History of Ireland,
vol. 1, London, 1814.
Stephen Barlow:
History of Ireland,
vol. 1, London, 1814.
277Â Â Â
The morning is charming
partially quoted in Deutsch p. 636
The morning is charming
partially quoted in Deutsch p. 636
I was at the Public-school
incident recounted in Burney:
An Account of the Musical performances in Westminster-Abbey and the Pantheon . . . in Commemoration of Handel,
London, 1785. His original transcription of Handel's pronunciation of the word âsight' as âsoite' suggests that the composer may have contracted Cockney vowel sounds otherwise uncharacteristic of a German accent
incident recounted in Burney:
An Account of the Musical performances in Westminster-Abbey and the Pantheon . . . in Commemoration of Handel,
London, 1785. His original transcription of Handel's pronunciation of the word âsight' as âsoite' suggests that the composer may have contracted Cockney vowel sounds otherwise uncharacteristic of a German accent
278Â Â Â
Crossing to Ireland
details in Alfred Coward:
Picturesque Cheshire,
London, 1903, pp. 232â33
Crossing to Ireland
details in Alfred Coward:
Picturesque Cheshire,
London, 1903, pp. 232â33
Dublin Journal
Deutsch pp. 524â25, 529
Deutsch pp. 524â25, 529
Mercer's Hospital
ibid. p. 526
ibid. p. 526
279Â Â Â
Handel to Jennens
ibid. pp. 530â31
Handel to Jennens
ibid. pp. 530â31
Handel's Dublin concerts
ibid. pp. 534â36
ibid. pp. 534â36
Swift's order
ibid. pp. 536â37
ibid. pp. 536â37
280. Â
For Relief of the Prisoners
ibid. p. 542
For Relief of the Prisoners
ibid. p. 542
281Â Â Â
In order to keep
ibid. p. 550
In order to keep
ibid. p. 550
282Â Â Â
Snitterton Hall
I am grateful to John Lee for information as to the village's possible link with Handel and
Messiah
Snitterton Hall
I am grateful to John Lee for information as to the village's possible link with Handel and
Messiah
283
Messiah
For the compositional process and details of the various changes made to the work, see Watkins Shaw:
A Companion to Handel's Messiah
, Jens Peter Larsen:
Handel's
Messiah,
Origin, Composition, Sources,
Richard Luckett:
Handel's
Messiah:
A Celebration,
Donald Burrows:
Handel: âMessiah'
Messiah
For the compositional process and details of the various changes made to the work, see Watkins Shaw:
A Companion to Handel's Messiah
, Jens Peter Larsen:
Handel's
Messiah,
Origin, Composition, Sources,
Richard Luckett:
Handel's
Messiah:
A Celebration,
Donald Burrows:
Handel: âMessiah'
12 Brave Hallelujahs
286Â Â Â
Paraletic stroke
Stefan Evers: âZur Pathographie Handels'
Paraletic stroke
Stefan Evers: âZur Pathographie Handels'
A German and a Genius
Laetitia Pilkington:
Memoirs,
London, 1754
Laetitia Pilkington:
Memoirs,
London, 1754
287Â Â Â
the report that the Direction
Deutsch p. 554
the report that the Direction
Deutsch p. 554
288Â Â Â
Walpole to Mann
ibid. p. 560
Walpole to Mann
ibid. p. 560
Filled with all the people
ibid. p. 561
ibid. p. 561
Wherever he rested
Burrows & Dunhill:
Handel and the Harris Circle
p. 6
Burrows & Dunhill:
Handel and the Harris Circle
p. 6
290Â Â Â
Philalethes
Deutsch pp. 563â65
Philalethes
Deutsch pp. 563â65
291Â Â Â
So much of the Epicure
Burrows & Dunhill op. cit. p. 10
So much of the Epicure
Burrows & Dunhill op. cit. p. 10
292Â Â Â
Walpole to Mann
Deutsch pp. 566â67
Walpole to Mann
Deutsch pp. 566â67
296Â Â Â
Miller's opposition principles
Ruth Smith:
Handel's Oratorios and
Eighteenth-Century Thought
op. cit. p. 300
Miller's opposition principles
Ruth Smith:
Handel's Oratorios and
Eighteenth-Century Thought
op. cit. p. 300
297Â Â Â
Handel in Clarges Street
Deutsch p. 589
Handel in Clarges Street
Deutsch p. 589
298Â Â Â
Handel's letter to the âDaily Advertiser'
ibid p. 602
Handel's letter to the âDaily Advertiser'
ibid p. 602
299Â Â Â
I would lament the Loss
ibid. p. 603
I would lament the Loss
ibid. p. 603
299Â Â Â
But chiefly ONE
ibid. p. 604
But chiefly ONE
ibid. p. 604
Handel's second letter
ibid. p. 606
ibid. p. 606
302Â Â Â
Handel-Jennens correspondence
ibid. pp. 590, 592, 595
Handel-Jennens correspondence
ibid. pp. 590, 592, 595
303Â Â Â
Handel, once so crowded
ibid. p. 610
Handel, once so crowded
ibid. p. 610
13
Next to the Hooting of Owls
Next to the Hooting of Owls
306Â Â Â
âNext to the hooting of Owls'
Chapter title taken from comment by Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 18 April, 1747, quoted in Deutsch p. 640: âThose oratorios of Handel's are certainly (next to the
hooting of owls
) the most solemnly striking music one can hear.'
âNext to the hooting of Owls'
Chapter title taken from comment by Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 18 April, 1747, quoted in Deutsch p. 640: âThose oratorios of Handel's are certainly (next to the
hooting of owls
) the most solemnly striking music one can hear.'
Handel's general look
Commemoration
op. cit. p. 27
Commemoration
op. cit. p. 27
He was in his person
Hawkins op. cit. p. 827
Hawkins op. cit. p. 827
307Â Â Â
12 Gallons Port
Fuller-Maitland & Mann op. cit. p. 194
12 Gallons Port
Fuller-Maitland & Mann op. cit. p. 194
The Scandalizade
for text see
Notes & Queries
April, 1876. I am indebted to Laura Cecil for the dictum about the goose, retailed by her father, David Cecil, as a fragment of Handelian oral tradition
for text see
Notes & Queries
April, 1876. I am indebted to Laura Cecil for the dictum about the goose, retailed by her father, David Cecil, as a fragment of Handelian oral tradition
âThe Charming Brute'
reproduced in Deutsch p. 768
reproduced in Deutsch p. 768
309Â Â Â
Fisher Littleton
Percy M. Young:
Handel
p. 105
Fisher Littleton
Percy M. Young:
Handel
p. 105
âComus'
Anthony Hicks: âHandel's Music for
Comus',
Betty Matthews: âUnpublished Letters Concerning Handel'
M & L
, July 1959
Anthony Hicks: âHandel's Music for
Comus',
Betty Matthews: âUnpublished Letters Concerning Handel'
M & L
, July 1959
310Â Â Â
The learned Doctor Greene
Thurston Dart: âMaurice Greene and the National Anthem'
M & L
, July 1959
The learned Doctor Greene
Thurston Dart: âMaurice Greene and the National Anthem'
M & L
, July 1959
311Â Â Â
Gluck on Handel
Young op. cit. p. 176
Gluck on Handel
Young op. cit. p. 176
312Â Â Â
Extremely worthy of him
Deutsch p. 629
Extremely worthy of him
Deutsch p. 629
314Â Â Â
Shaftesbury to Harris
Betty Matthews: âMore Unpublished Letters Concerning Handel'
Musical Quarterly
April 1961
Shaftesbury to Harris
Betty Matthews: âMore Unpublished Letters Concerning Handel'
Musical Quarterly
April 1961
315Â Â Â
Burney on Galli
op. cit. p. 841
Burney on Galli
op. cit. p. 841
He was warm in his attachments
Nicholls op. cit. pp. 651â6
Nicholls op. cit. pp. 651â6
316Â Â Â
Especially if it be considered
Deutsch pp. 851â53
Especially if it be considered
Deutsch pp. 851â53
318Â Â Â
Speaks with such ecstasy
ibid p. 651
Speaks with such ecstasy
ibid p. 651
âLucio Vero'
ibid. p. 643
ibid. p. 643
319Â Â Â
What may we not expect?
Burney:
Commemoration
op. cit. p. 26
What may we not expect?
Burney:
Commemoration
op. cit. p. 26
âI closed my Eyes'
Eliza Heywood:
Epistles for the Ladies
vol. 1, ep. xix, London, 1748
Eliza Heywood:
Epistles for the Ladies
vol. 1, ep. xix, London, 1748
322Â Â Â
As to the last Air
Deutsch p. 852
As to the last Air
Deutsch p. 852
14
Overplied in Music's Cause
Overplied in Music's Cause
325Â Â Â
An enormous white wig
Burney:
Commemoration
op. cit. p. 23
An enormous white wig
Burney:
Commemoration
op. cit. p. 23
326Â Â Â
Bononcini's death
Kurt Hueber: âGli ultimi anni di Giovanni Bononcini',
Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Modena,
Serie 5, vol. XII, Modena, 1954
Bononcini's death
Kurt Hueber: âGli ultimi anni di Giovanni Bononcini',
Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Modena,
Serie 5, vol. XII, Modena, 1954
327Â Â Â
Lady Shaftesbury on
âSusanna'
Deutsch p. 657Â Â
Will not the sedate Raptures
ibid. pp. 657â58
Lady Shaftesbury on
âSusanna'
Deutsch p. 657Â Â
Will not the sedate Raptures
ibid. pp. 657â58
332Â Â Â
âMachine'
Full details in
A Description of the Machine for the Fireworks,
London, 1749
When I told him
Deutsch p. 661
âMachine'
Full details in
A Description of the Machine for the Fireworks,
London, 1749
When I told him
Deutsch p. 661
333Â Â Â
Wont let us have his overture
ibid. p. 662
Wont let us have his overture
ibid. p. 662
Byrom to his wife
ibid. pp. 667â68
ibid. pp. 667â68
335Â Â Â
Handel and the Foundling Hospital
ibid. pp. 669â70. See also Ruth McClure:
Coram's Children,
London, 1979
Handel and the Foundling Hospital
ibid. pp. 669â70. See also Ruth McClure:
Coram's Children,
London, 1979
336Â Â Â
The old Buck
Betty Matthews: âMore Unpublished Letters' op. cit. letter dated 3 January, 1748â9
Handel at picture auctions
Deutsch p. 680
The old Buck
Betty Matthews: âMore Unpublished Letters' op. cit. letter dated 3 January, 1748â9
Handel at picture auctions
Deutsch p. 680
337Â Â Â
The next I wrote
ibid. p. 852
The next I wrote
ibid. p. 852
I can't conclude
Betty Matthews: âMore Unpublished Letters' op. cit. letter dated 24 March 1749â50
Betty Matthews: âMore Unpublished Letters' op. cit. letter dated 24 March 1749â50
Surely
âTheodora'
Deutsch p. 695
âTheodora'
Deutsch p. 695
341Â Â Â
Handel to Telemann
ibid. pp. 696â97
Handel to Telemann
ibid. pp. 696â97
15.
Great and Good
Great and Good
343Â Â Â
Belshazar is now advertised
Matthews: âMore Unpublished Letters' op. cit. letter dated 16 February, 1750â51
Belshazar is now advertised
Matthews: âMore Unpublished Letters' op. cit. letter dated 16 February, 1750â51
349Â Â Â
New material for borrowing
details in Thomas Goleeke: â“These Labours past”: Handel's look to the Future'
New material for borrowing
details in Thomas Goleeke: â“These Labours past”: Handel's look to the Future'
351Â Â Â
How feelingly he must recollect
Deutsch p. 728
How feelingly he must recollect
Deutsch p. 728
One newspaper
Deutsch p. 731
Deutsch p. 731
Foundling Hospital governors
ibid. p. 740
ibid. p. 740
353Â Â Â
Shaftesbury to Harris
Matthews: âMore unpublished Letters' op. cit. letter dated 31 December, 1757
Shaftesbury to Harris
Matthews: âMore unpublished Letters' op. cit. letter dated 31 December, 1757
355Â Â Â
Baker's diary
Deutsch pp. 795, 806
Baker's diary
Deutsch pp. 795, 806
356Â Â Â
Smyth to Granville
ibid. pp. 818â19
Smyth to Granville
ibid. pp. 818â19
357Â Â Â
Lady Huntingdon & Martin Madan
ibid. p. 813
Lady Huntingdon & Martin Madan
ibid. p. 813
Handel's funeral
ibid. pp. 819â824
ibid. pp. 819â824
359Â Â Â
Handel's will
ibid. pp. 691â92, 776, 784, 788, 814â15
Handel's will
ibid. pp. 691â92, 776, 784, 788, 814â15
360Â Â Â
Memorial poems
ibid. pp. 817â18
Memorial poems
ibid. pp. 817â18
361Â Â Â
âThe Task'
quoted in Robert Manson Myers:
Early Moral Criticism of Handelian Oratorio,
Williamsburg, 1947 and ibid. See also
Handel's Messiah, A Touchstone of Taste,
New York, 1948
âThe Task'
quoted in Robert Manson Myers:
Early Moral Criticism of Handelian Oratorio,
Williamsburg, 1947 and ibid. See also
Handel's Messiah, A Touchstone of Taste,
New York, 1948
A religious service
letter dated 2 June 1784, in
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper,
ed. King & Ryskamp, Oxford, 1981, vol. 2
letter dated 2 June 1784, in
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper,
ed. King & Ryskamp, Oxford, 1981, vol. 2
362Â Â Â
Church Langton festival
see William Hanbury:
The History of the Rise and Progress of the Charitable Foundations at Church Langton,
London, 1767, and William Hayes:
Anecdotes of the Five Music Meetings on Account of the Charitable Foundations at Church Langton,
Oxford, 1768
Church Langton festival
see William Hanbury:
The History of the Rise and Progress of the Charitable Foundations at Church Langton,
London, 1767, and William Hayes:
Anecdotes of the Five Music Meetings on Account of the Charitable Foundations at Church Langton,
Oxford, 1768
363Â Â Â
Grand celebration in Westminster Abbey
standard account is Burney:
Commemoration
op. cit.
Grand celebration in Westminster Abbey
standard account is Burney:
Commemoration
op. cit.
364Â Â Â
Mozart and Handel
see Walther Siegmund-Schulze: âGeorg Friedrich Handel als ein Wegbereiter der Wiener Klassik',
H-J
1981, also Mozart's letter to his father on visits to Switen, 10 April, 1782, in
Mozart, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen III,
ed. Bauer & Deutsch, Kassel, 1963
Mozart and Handel
see Walther Siegmund-Schulze: âGeorg Friedrich Handel als ein Wegbereiter der Wiener Klassik',
H-J
1981, also Mozart's letter to his father on visits to Switen, 10 April, 1782, in
Mozart, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen III,
ed. Bauer & Deutsch, Kassel, 1963
366Â Â Â
The father of modern harmony
see H.C. Robbins Landon:
Haydn in England, 1791â5,
London, 1976
The father of modern harmony
see H.C. Robbins Landon:
Haydn in England, 1791â5,
London, 1976
Beethoven and Handel
see Donald MacArdle: âBeethoven and Handel',
MT
1960
see Donald MacArdle: âBeethoven and Handel',
MT
1960
368Â Â Â
One who nightly wins
ibid. July, 1865
One who nightly wins
ibid. July, 1865
As to the good
ibid. July, 1880
ibid. July, 1880
The great Handelian solemnity
MT,
July, 1862
MT,
July, 1862
370Â Â Â
The heavy bewigged face
Hector Berlioz:
A Travers Chants,
Paris, 1862, pp. 130â98
The heavy bewigged face
Hector Berlioz:
A Travers Chants,
Paris, 1862, pp. 130â98
Lalo yawning
quoted in Myers:
Handel's Messiah,
op. cit. p. 266. No source given
Acrobatic displays
Les Ecrits de Paul Dukas sur la Musique,
ed. G. Samazeuilh, Paris, 1948
quoted in Myers:
Handel's Messiah,
op. cit. p. 266. No source given
Acrobatic displays
Les Ecrits de Paul Dukas sur la Musique,
ed. G. Samazeuilh, Paris, 1948
We always feel
quoted in Emile Damas:
Haendel,
Paris, 1970. No source given
quoted in Emile Damas:
Haendel,
Paris, 1970. No source given
371Â Â Â
Stravinsky on Handel
see Igor Stravinsky & Robert Craft:
Expositions and Developments,
London, 1962 and Robert Craft:
Stravinsky, Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948â71,
London, 1972
Stravinsky on Handel
see Igor Stravinsky & Robert Craft:
Expositions and Developments,
London, 1962 and Robert Craft:
Stravinsky, Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948â71,
London, 1972
372Â Â Â
Schoenberg's arrangement
see also, in this connection, Schoenberg's general remarks on Handel in âNew Music, Outmoded Music' (1946) in
Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg,
ed. Stein, London, 1975
Schoenberg's arrangement
see also, in this connection, Schoenberg's general remarks on Handel in âNew Music, Outmoded Music' (1946) in
Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg,
ed. Stein, London, 1975
373Â Â Â
A certain monotony
MT,
September, 1923
A certain monotony
MT,
September, 1923
WesterbyâBenton-Fletcher correspondence
MT,
January, 1937, 137â38
MT,
January, 1937, 137â38
Miss Daunt's
âRinaldo'
MT,
March, 1933
âRinaldo'
MT,
March, 1933
374Â Â Â
Mahamaya and Nimbavati
the edition in question is a âfreie Nachrichtung und Bühnenfassung' by Heinz Ruckert, published by Deutsche Verlag für Musik
Mahamaya and Nimbavati
the edition in question is a âfreie Nachrichtung und Bühnenfassung' by Heinz Ruckert, published by Deutsche Verlag für Musik
No humane answer
see Brian Trowell: âHandel as a Man of the Theatre',
Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association,
vol. 88, London, 1961â62
see Brian Trowell: âHandel as a Man of the Theatre',
Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association,
vol. 88, London, 1961â62
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EM:
Early Music
Early Music
H-J:
Händel-Jahrbuch
Händel-Jahrbuch
M & L:
Music & Letter
s
Music & Letter
s
MT:
Musical Times
Musical Times
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