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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
List of Illustrations
Dramatis Personæ
Prefatory Note
1 Introductions: Handel and his friends
2 Before London (1685–1710: German training, Italian sojourn, arrival in England)
3 Politics, Patronage, and Pension (1710–1727: Birthday Ode for Queen Anne to Riccardo primo for George II)
4 Commerce and Trade (1711–1730: Rinaldo to end of Royal Academy)
5 Music at Home (1715–1730: Chamber music and keyboard works, private concerts, publications)
6 Marriage, Wealth, and Social Status (1728–1741: The “second” Academy to the last opera, Deidamia)
7 Ambition, Law, and Friendship (1738–1749: Saul, Samson, Belshazzar, Susanna, Solomon)
8 Making and Collecting (1738–1750: Roubiliac sculpture of Handel, Alexander’s Feast, concertos, collecting)
9 Religion and Charity (1739–1750: A look back at Esther, then Israel in Egypt, Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus, Theodora)
10 Sickness and Death (1737–1759: First “paralytic attack,” a look back to Admeto, then madness in Saul and Hercules, and Jephtha to The Triumph of Time and Truth)
11 Wills and Legacies
Appendix 1: Currency, Living Costs, Wages, and Fees
Appendix 2: A Very Select Discography
Acknowledgments
Select Bibliography
Notes
Index
Copyright
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