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Description for Messiah
Hardback. The story of the composition, first performances and cultural afterlife of one of the best-loved and most widely performed works in the entire history of music. Num Pages: 224 pages, 40 col illus. BIC Classification: AVGC3; AVGC8; AVGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 194 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festivals across England; other composers rushed to rearrange it; it would be commercially recorded on more than 100 occasions. Jonathan Keates tells the story of the composition and musical afterlife of Handel's masterpiece: he considers the first performances and its place in Handel's output; he looks at the oratorio itself and ... Read more
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festivals across England; other composers rushed to rearrange it; it would be commercially recorded on more than 100 occasions. Jonathan Keates tells the story of the composition and musical afterlife of Handel's masterpiece: he considers the first performances and its place in Handel's output; he looks at the oratorio itself and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784974008
SKU
V9781784974008
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Ref
99-30
About Jonathan Keates
Jonathan Keates is a distinguished and prize-winning biographer, novelist and travel writer, and author of lives of the composers Handel (1985) and Purcell (1995). He is chairman of the Venice in Peril fund.
Reviews for Messiah
'However you like to hear your Messiah, you should enjoy it all the more for reading Keates's lucid guide ... his analysis is taut and his narrative skilfully concise' The Times. 'This delightful book [...] contains a lot to muse over ... the author clearly knows what he is talking about, and illuminates what we thought we knew' Book of ... Read more