The Cambridge Companion to Handel (Cambridge Companions to Music)

by Donald Burrows (Editor)

Handel is recognized as one of the principal creative figures in Baroque music. In this Companion acknowledged experts on Handel make their expertise accessible to the interested general reader and music lover. All the genres in which Handel composed are considered including oratorio, chamber cantata, opera, and church music, as well as works for the keyboard and orchestra. The wide-ranging essays cover topics from Handel's composing methods to his treatment of the Italian language and matters of performance practice.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published December 4, 1997

About the author

Donald James Burrows is Professor of Music at the Open University, and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel

Reviews

[Denise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting group of essays, I skimmed most of the historical background ones, but the essay on Handel’s Italian fluency and the essay on his keyboard skills were both pretty unique.

[Richard Pohl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though there is a lot of useful information for research, I was a little disappointed with the lack of more detailed description of compositional and analytical aspects - anyway, the chapter on the keyboard music was interesting enough and helped to clarify the topic for me. In the future should take a look on some monographies, hopefully, too.