Handel, Who Knew What He Liked: Candlewick Biographies

Handel, Who Knew What He Liked: Candlewick Biographies
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A droll biography reveals the high notesâ€”and the low notesâ€”in the life of the worldâ€™s foremost composer of Baroque music.

This is not your usual picture book biography. Nor was George Frideric Handel your everyday eighteenth-century composer. This witty and yet rigorously researched and accessible biography captures Handelâ€™s essential spiritâ€”from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to play music against his fatherâ€™s orders to a young man who imported forty-five pounds of mountain snow to chill wine for a galaâ€”as well as his remarkable, enduring musical triumphs. But M. T. Anderson also shows Handelâ€™s struggles and chronicles the illness, ill fortune, and despair that led to his greatest achievement, the Messiah. With impeccable detail and a wink at the reader, Kevin Hawkes illustrates the singular story of Handel and the music through which he lives on.

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