{"product_id":"2940016668192","title":"Handel","description":"This edition features a linked Table of Contents  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  \u003cbr\u003eChronology  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eChapter I  \u003cbr\u003eBirth and parentage — studies under Zachow at Halle — Hamburg — friendship and  \u003cbr\u003eduel with Mattheson — Almira — departure for Italy.  \u003cbr\u003eChapter II  \u003cbr\u003eArrival in Italy — Rodrigo — Rome: Cardinal Ottoboni and the  \u003cbr\u003eScarlattis — Naples: Venice: Agrippina — appointment at Hanover — London:  \u003cbr\u003eRinaldo.  \u003cbr\u003eChapter III  \u003cbr\u003eSecond visit to London — Italian opera — George I and the Water  \u003cbr\u003eMusic — visit to Germany — Canons and the Duke of Chandos — establishment of  \u003cbr\u003ethe Royal Academy of Music.  \u003cbr\u003eChapter IV  \u003cbr\u003eBuononcini — Cuzzoni, Faustina, and Senesino — death of George I — The  \u003cbr\u003eBeggar’s Opera — collapse of the Academy.  \u003cbr\u003eChapter V  \u003cbr\u003eHandel naturalized — partnership with Heidegger — Esther — the Opera of  \u003cbr\u003ethe Nobility — visit to Oxford — opera season at Covent Garden — Charles  \u003cbr\u003eJennens — collapse of both opera-houses.  \u003cbr\u003eChapter VI  \u003cbr\u003eBankruptcy and paralysis — visit to Aix-la-Chapelle — the last  \u003cbr\u003eoperas — Vauxhall Gardens — Handel’s “borrowings” — visit to  \u003cbr\u003eIreland — Messiah and other oratorios.  \u003cbr\u003eChapter VII  \u003cbr\u003eJudas Maccabaeus — Gluck — Thomas Morell — incipient blindness — Telemann and  \u003cbr\u003ehis garden — last oratorios — death — character and personality.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBibliography  \u003cbr\u003eHandel’s Works  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101462905072,"sku":"2940016668192","price":3.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016668192_p0.jpg?v=1763639405","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016668192","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}