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Fully revised, expanded and updated edition of Jonathan Keates' magisterial 1985 biography of one of the world's favourite composers.Though unquestionably one of the greatest and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) had received little attention from biographers before Jonathan Keates's masterful Handel: The Man and His Music appeared in 1985. This fully updated and expanded edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composer's death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn,…
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5 editions- Ebook · English · 2009Random House Group Limited · 9781407020839
- Hardcover · English · 1998Everyman's Library · 9780375400742
- Paperback · English · 1993Victor Gollancz · 352 pages · 9780575054813
- Other · English · 2008Bodley Head · 432 pages · 9780224082020
- Other · English · 1985Gollancz · 346 pages · 9780575035737
BiographyBiography & AutobiographyComposersMusicNonfictionComposers, biographyHandel, george frideric, 1685-1759