The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia

From Arias to Zadok the Priest - over 700 entries by international experts explore all aspects of Handel's life and work.

Annette Landgraf (Edited by), David Vickers (Edited by)

9781107666405, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 October 2013

857 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 1.35 kg

'The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia … marks the reassessment of the last four decades and is hugely informative about how Handel played the London market, borrowed on the musical exchange, gave munificently and composed.' David Martin, Times Literary Supplement

George Frideric Handel was born and educated in Germany, flourished in Italy, and chose to become British. One of the most cosmopolitan of the great composers, much of Handel's music has remained in the popular repertory since his lifetime, and a broad variety of his music theatre works from Italian operas to English oratorios have experienced a dramatic renaissance since the late twentieth century. A large number of publications devoted to Handel's life and music have appeared from his own time to the present day, but The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia gathers the full range of present knowledge and leading scholarship into a single volume for convenient and illuminating reference. Packed with well over 700 informative and accessible entries, both long and short, this book is ideal for performers, scholars, students and music lovers who wish to explore the Handelian world.

Preface
Foreword Christopher Hogwood
A-Z general entries
Appendix 1. Worklist
Appendix 2. Chronology
Appendix 3. Handel's family tree
Appendix 4. Handel iconography
Appendix 5. Genealogical table of the ruling houses of Britain and Hanover
Appendix 6. Handel's music on CD and DVD
Appendix 7. An overview of fifty Handel performers, 1959–2009
Appendix 8. Handel organizations and websites
Select bibliography.

Subject Areas: Baroque music [c 1600 to c 1750 AVGC3]