Handel in Words and Music | Davina Caddy

#ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial:https://mediabooks.space/il-3922/Title: Handel in Words and Music Author: Davina Caddy Narrator: Nicholas Boulton Format: mp3 Length: 1 hr and 17 mins Release date: 07-26-24 Ratings: 5.0 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Entertainment & Celebrities Publisher's Summary: Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, two of his greatest orchestral achievements, have become synonymous with mid-18th-century England and with the pomp, ceremony and tradition of British royalty. But is this music necessarily synonymous with Handel? Where did his eclecticism and experimentalism come from? How and why did he conquer the emerging genre of the English oratorio and what were the circumstances that allowed him to become one of opera’s greatest composers?