TY - BOOK AU - Flower,Newman AU - Smith,William Charles TI - George Frideric Handel, his personality and his times AV - ML410.H13 F5 1948 U1 - 927.8 PY - 1948/// CY - New York PB - C. Scribner's Sons KW - Handel, George Frideric, N1 - "Bibliography, compiled by William C. Smith": p. [363]-382; Of some relations -- The Halle Days -- The Hamburg adventure, 1703-1705 -- The Italian journey -- The first visit to London -- The last days of Anne -- The Water Music and a journey abroad -- Cannons -- The coming of Bononcini -- Anxious days at the Academy -- The great quarrel -- The fall of the Academy -- The partnership with Heidegger -- The birth of Oratorio -- The visit to Oxford -- The crash -- The death of the Queen -- "As some lone ship" -- The last operas -- Messiah -- The return to London -- The second failure -- The tide turns -- The Firework Music and the Foundling Hospital -- The years of blindness -- Night in the hills -- Appendix. Handel's difficulties with his singers -- Notes on his score corrections; Also issued online UR - http://www.archive.org/details/georgefridericha00flow UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL13633724M ER -