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008			150729s2015 enka f 000|0|eng|d
020			_a9781783270613 (hbk.) : _cNo price
035			_a(StDuBDS)9781783270613
040			_aStDuBDS _beng _cStDuBDS _erda
072		7	_aMUS _2eflch
072		7	_aMUS _2ukslc
082	0	4	_a780.9'2 _223
100	1		_aHunter, David, _d1954- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe lives of George Frideric Handel / _cDavid Hunter.
264		1	_aMartlesham : _bThe Boydell Press, _c2015.
300			_a512 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aMusic in Britain, 1600-2000
520	8		_aTo evaluate the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say? This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, not only to produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of biography and dissemination by using Handel's life and lives as a case study. By examining the images of Handel to be found in biographies and music histories - the genius, the religious profound, the master of musical styles, the distiller into music of English sentiment, the glorifier of the Hanoverians, the hymner of the middle class, the independent, the prodigious, the generous, the sexless, the successful, the wealthy, the bankrupt, the pious, the crud, the heroic, the devious, the battler of ill-fortune, the moral exemplar - and by adding new factual information, David Hunter shows how events are manipulated into stories and troupes.
521			_aSpecialized.
600	1	0	_aHandel, George Frideric, _d1685-1759.
650		0	_aComposers _xBiography _xHistory and criticism.
650		7	_aMusic. _2eflch
650		7	_aMusic. _2ukslc
830		0	_aMusic in Britain, 1600-2000.
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