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Handel Who Knew What He Liked

M.T. Anderson, Kevin Hawkes

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Handel's audacity and genius: a witty biography.

If you have a penchant for classical music intertwined with a dash of humor, "Handel Who Knew What He Liked" will strike a chord. It's not just a recount of historical events—it's Handel's persistence and character leaping off pages that will invigorate any reader interested in the resilience and talent it takes to seduce kings and commoners alike with timeless music.

  • Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780744573343
Authors: M.T. Anderson, Kevin Hawkes
Publisher: Walker Books
Date of Publication: 2001-11-05
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Music
Related Topics: Biography Memoir, Biography, Music, Historical, Biography Memoir, History, Biography
Goodreads rating: 4.06
(rated by 227 readers)

Description

George Frideric Handel was not your everyday eighteenth-century composer. And in a manner befitting its subject, this witty, rigorously researched, and accessible biography captures Handel's essential spirit--from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to make music against his father's orders to a young man who imported forty-five pounds of mountain snow to chill wine for a gala. Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner M. T. Anderson depicts not only Handel's triumphs but also his struggles, chronicling the illness, ill fortune, and despair that led to his greatest achievement, the Messiah. With impeccable detail and a wink at the reader, Kevin Hawkes illustrates this singular story of Handel and the music through which he lives on.
 

Handel's audacity and genius: a witty biography.

If you have a penchant for classical music intertwined with a dash of humor, "Handel Who Knew What He Liked" will strike a chord. It's not just a recount of historical events—it's Handel's persistence and character leaping off pages that will invigorate any reader interested in the resilience and talent it takes to seduce kings and commoners alike with timeless music.

  • Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominee (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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