Handel

This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography operatic career singers librettists and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary exploration of an individual opera aria. Designed to bring easy and convenient access to students performers and music lovers the wide-ranging articles are selected by David Vickers (co-editor of the recent Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia) from diverse sources - not only familiar important journals but also specialist yearbooks festschrifts not easily accessible newsletters conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Many of these represent an up-to-date understanding of modern Handel studies deal with fascinating biographical issues (such as the composer's art collection his chronic health problems and the nature of popular anecdotal evidence) and fill gaps in the mainstream Handelian literature.