Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel, and John Christopher Smith

With Select Pieces of Music, Composed by J. C. Smith, Never Before Published
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-108-07094-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 235 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Music

The author and clergyman William Coxe (1748–1828), noted for his travel works, was the stepson of Handel's amanuensis, German-born John Christopher Smith (1712–1795). First published in 1799, the present work is a valuable source of first-hand information about two men at the heart of eighteenth-century English music: George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), whose inventive and sensitive melodic genius and exuberant brilliance in depicting the spectacular are best displayed in his Messiah and Zadok the Priest, and Smith, a composer of attractive and fashionable music, who settled in London in 1720, took lessons with Handel and later supported the great composer as his eyesight failed. Smith was also organist at the Foundling Hospital until 1770. This publication, profits from which were intended to support Smith's family, draws on the works of John Hawkins and Charles Burney, and on anecdotes claimed to be 'derived from unquestionable authority'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coxe, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Barock (ca. 1600-1750)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of subscribers; Anecdotes of Handel; Anecdotes of Smith; Appendix; Music examples.