The Life of George Frederick Handel by William Smith Rockstro... - 9781108064811

The Life of George Frederick HandelWith an Introductory Notice by George Grove\nAuthor(s): William Smith Rockstro, George Grove\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108064811, 978-1108064811\nSynopsis\nBeloved not only in Britain, George Frideric Handel [tel] is admired as a composer the world over. His inventive and sensitive melodic genius and his exuberant brilliance in depicting the spectacular are best displayed in his Messiah and Zadok the Priest. Larger than life, Handel impressed all who met him and was adept at promoting his works, arranging for their publication and even selling them from his home in London's Brook Street. His dogged determination to triumph over the many reverses of his career and the fickle enthusiasms of the Georgian public is the stuff of three-volume novels. This sympathetic and highly readable biography by the composer and author William Smith Rockstro [tel] was fi.