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Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel, and John Christopher Smith: With Select Pieces of Music, Composed by J. C. Smith, Never Before Published

Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel, and John Christopher Smith: With Select Pieces of Music, Composed by J. C. Smith, Never Before Published

Coxe, William

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Music

Art HistoryMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1108070949
ISBN13: 9781108070942
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Feb 13 2014
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.24 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The author and clergyman William Coxe (1748-1828), noted for his travel works, was the stepson of Handel's amanuensis, German-born John Christopher Smith (1712-95). First published in 1799, the present work is a valuable source of first-hand information about two men at the heart of eighteenth-century English music: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), whose inventive and sensitive melodic genius and exuberant brilliance in depicting the spectacular are best displayed in his Messiah and Zadok the Priest, and Smith, a composer of attractive and fashionable music, who settled in London in 1720, took lessons with Handel and later supported the great composer as his eyesight failed. Smith was also organist at the Foundling Hospital until 1770. This publication, profits from which were intended to support Smith's family, draws on the works of John Hawkins and Charles Burney, and on anecdotes claimed to be 'derived from unquestionable authority'.

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