Handel

by Handel- The Man

  303 Handel, once so crowded ibid. p. 610

  13 Next to the Hooting of Owls

  306 ‘Next to the hooting of Owls’ Chapter title taken from comment by Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 18 April, 1747, quoted in Deutsch p. 640: ‘Those 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

  He was in his person Hawkins op. cit. p. 827

  307 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

  ‘The Charming Brute’ reproduced in Deutsch p. 768

  309 Fisher Littleton Percy M. Young: Handel p. 105

  ‘Comus’ Anthony Hicks: ‘Handel’s Music for Comus’, Betty Matthews: ‘Unpublished Letters Concerning Handel’ M & L, July 1959

  310 The learned Doctor Greene Thurston Dart: ‘Maurice Greene and the National Anthem’ M & L, July 1959

  311 Gluck on Handel Young op. cit. p. 176

  312 Extremely worthy of him Deutsch p. 629

  314 Shaftesbury to Harris Betty Matthews: ‘More Unpublished Letters Concerning Handel’ Musical Quarterly April 1961

  315 Burney on Galli op. cit. p. 841

  He was warm in his attachments Nicholls op. cit. pp. 651–6

  316 Especially if it be considered Deutsch pp. 851–53

  318 Speaks with such ecstasy ibid p. 651

  ‘Lucio Vero’ ibid. p. 643

  319 What may we not expect? Burney: Commemoration op. cit. p. 26

  ‘I closed my Eyes’ Eliza Heywood: Epistles for the Ladies vol. 1, ep. xix, London, 1748

  322 As to the last Air Deutsch p. 852

  14 Overplied in Music’s Cause

  325 An enormous white wig Burney: Commemoration op. cit. p. 23

  326 Bononcini’s death Kurt Hueber: ‘Gli ultimi anni di Giovanni Bononcini’, Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Modena, Serie 5, vol. XII, Modena, 1954

  327 Lady Shaftesbury on ‘Susanna’ Deutsch p. 657 Will not the sedate Raptures ibid. pp. 657–58

  332 ‘Machine’ Full details in A Description of the Machine for the Fireworks, London, 1749 When I told him Deutsch p. 661

  333 Wont let us have his overture ibid. p. 662

  Byrom to his wife ibid. pp. 667–68

  335 Handel and the Foundling Hospital ibid. pp. 669–70. See also Ruth McClure: Coram’s Children, London, 1979

  336 The old Buck Betty Matthews: ‘More Unpublished Letters’ op. cit. letter dated 3 January, 1748–9 Handel at picture auctions Deutsch p. 680

  337 The next I wrote ibid. p. 852

  I can’t conclude Betty Matthews: ‘More Unpublished Letters’ op. cit. letter dated 24 March 1749–50

  Surely ‘Theodora’ Deutsch p. 695

  341 Handel to Telemann ibid. pp. 696–97

  15. Great and Good

  343 Belshazar is now advertised Matthews: ‘More Unpublished Letters’ op. cit. letter dated 16 February, 1750–51

  349 New material for borrowing details in Thomas Goleeke: ‘“These Labours past”: Handel’s look to the Future’

  351 How feelingly he must recollect Deutsch p. 728

  One newspaper Deutsch p. 731

  Foundling Hospital governors ibid. p. 740

  353 Shaftesbury to Harris Matthews: ‘More unpublished Letters’ op. cit. letter dated 31 December, 1757

  355 Baker’s diary Deutsch pp. 795, 806

  356 Smyth to Granville ibid. pp. 818–19

  357 Lady Huntingdon & Martin Madan ibid. p. 813

  Handel’s funeral ibid. pp. 819–824

  359 Handel’s will ibid. pp. 691–92, 776, 784, 788, 814–15

  360 Memorial poems ibid. pp. 817–18

  361 ‘The 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

  362 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

  363 Grand celebration in Westminster Abbey standard account is Burney: Commemoration op. cit.

  364 Mozart and Handel see Walther Siegmund-Schulze: ‘Georg 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

  366 The father of modern harmony see H.C. Robbins Landon: Haydn in England, 1791–5, London, 1976

  Beethoven and Handel see Donald MacArdle: ‘Beethoven and Handel’, MT 1960

  368 One who nightly wins ibid. July, 1865

  As to the good ibid. July, 1880

  The great Handelian solemnity MT, July, 1862

  370 The heavy bewigged face Hector Berlioz: A Travers Chants, Paris, 1862, pp. 130–98

  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

  We always feel quoted in Emile Damas: Haendel, Paris, 1970. No source given

  371 Stravinsky on Handel see Igor Stravinsky & Robert Craft: Expositions and Developments, London, 1962 and Robert Craft: Stravinsky, Chronicle of a Friendship, 1948–71, London, 1972

  372 Schoenberg’s arrangement see also, in this connection, Schoenberg’s general remarks on Handel in ‘New Music, Outmoded Music’ (1946) in Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, ed. Stein, London, 1975

  373 A certain monotony MT, September, 1923

  Westerby–Benton-Fletcher correspondence MT, January, 1937, 137–38

  Miss Daunt’s ‘Rinaldo’ MT, March, 1933

  374 Mahamaya and Nimbavati the edition in question is a ‘freie Nachrichtung und Bühnenfassung’ by Heinz Ruckert, published by Deutsche Verlag für Musik

  No humane answer see Brian Trowell: ‘Handel as a Man of the Theatre’, Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 88, London, 1961–62

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