Format:
XX, 751 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
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25 cm
ISBN:
0193152193
Note:
Contents: Handel as opera composer -- Performance practice -- The German background : opera in Hamburg -- Almira, Königin von Castilien -- The lost Hamburg operas -- The Italian background, 1706-1709 -- Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria (Rodrigo) -- Agrippina -- The English background : Italian opera in London, 1705-1710 -- The first London period, 1711-1717 -- Rinaldo -- Il Pastor fido -- Teseo -- Silla -- Amadigi di Gaula -- The Royal Academy to the arrival of Faustina Bordoni, 1719-1726 -- Radamisto -- Muzio Scevola -- Floridante -- Ottone rè di Germania -- Flavio rè de' Longobardi -- Giulio Cesare in Egitto -- Tamerlano -- Rodelinda -- Scipione. - First published 1987; this is the first paperback revised edition, with an additional preface by Dean dated 1994. With the review by Roger Savage from the Times Literary Supplement of 13-19 May 1988 loosely inserted (donated July 2013) Bibliography: p. Text in English
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Händel, Georg Friedrich 1685-1759
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Oper
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Geschichte 1704-1726
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Händel, Georg Friedrich 1685-1759
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Oper
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Geschichte 1704-1726
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/85011580-d.html
Author information:
Knapp, John Merrill 1914-1993
Author information:
Dean, Winton 1916-2013
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