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Handel, Who Knew What He Liked: Candlewick Biographies

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A droll biography reveals the high notes—and the low notes—in the life of the world’s foremost composer of Baroque music.

This isn’t your usual picture book biography. Nor was once George Frideric Handel your on a regular basis eighteenth-century composer. This witty and yet rigorously researched and accessible biography captures Handel’s crucial spirit—from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to play music against his father’s orders to a young man who imported forty-five pounds of mountain snow to chill wine for a gala—in addition to his remarkable, enduring musical triumphs. But M. T. Anderson also shows Handel’s struggles and chronicles the illness, unwell fortune, and despair that led to his greatest achievement, the Messiah. With impeccable detail and a wink on the reader, Kevin Hawkes illustrates the singular story of Handel and the music during which he lives on.
Back matter features a time line, discography, creator’s note, sources, and an index.

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