This Handbook covers Handel's best known public music, the Water Music, written at the outset of his English career, and the Music for the Royal Fireworks, the last and largest of his orchestral ...

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Prepare to be swept away by the grandeur and elegance of Baroque music as the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra presents Handel's “Water Music” Suite. This highly anticipated concert will take place on ...

King’s resurrection of Jennens’s crucial role, laboring in private over a libretto that he hoped would inspire “the Prodigious” (as he called Handel) to new musical heights, helps illuminate how ...

English audiences took to his 1711 opera Rinaldo, and several years later Handel moved to England permanently. He impressed King George early on with the Water Music of 1716, written as entertainment ...

The three individual works showcased –– Handel’s ... form around us and the music turns triumphant. Among this cacophony of city buzz, we hear the sound of water and all eyes turn ...