Handel
CHRONOLOGY.
CHAPTER I. Birth and parentage—studies under
Zachow at Halle—Hamburg—friendship and duel with
Mattheson—Almira—departure for Italy.
CHAPTER II. Arrival in Italy—Rodrigo—Rome:
Cardinal Ottoboni and the Scarlattis—Naples: Venice: Agrippina
—appointment at Hanover—London: Rinaldo.
CHAPTER III. Second visit to London—Italian
opera—George I and the Water Music—visit to Germany—Canons and the
Duke of Chandos—establishment of the Royal Academy of Music.
CHAPTER IV. Buononcini—Cuzzoni, Faustina, and
Senesino—death of George I—The Beggar's Opera—collapse of the
Academy.
CHAPTER V. Handel naturalized—partnership with
Heidegger—Esther—the Opera of the Nobility—visit to Oxford—opera
season at Covent Garden—Charles Jennens—collapse of both
opera-houses.
CHAPTER VI. Bankruptcy and paralysis—visit to
Aix-la-Chapelle—the last operas—Vauxhall Gardens—Handel's
“borrowings”—visit to Ireland—Messiah and other oratorios.
CHAPTER VII. Judas Maccabaeus—Gluck—Thomas
Morell—incipient blindness—Telemann and his garden—last
oratorios—death—character and personality.
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