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Handel

Romain Rolland

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. . .FNanchor_128_128" id="FNanchor_128_128">[128] Her husband valued her little, but he was brilliant and ostentatious. They were the most polished and distinguished couple in Germany at the Court of Hanover.[129] Both loved music, but Ernest Augustus seems never to have dreamt that it existed anywhere outside of Italy, and he might almost as well have been called the “Duke of Venice” as the Duke of Hanover, for he was constantly in Venice, and never wished to leave it for long.[130]

The Hanover people began to murmur. The only means they could find of keeping their Prince at home with them was to build a magnificent opera house where spectacles and fêtes resembling those in Venice could be given. The idea was good. Ernest Augustus warmly took up the scheme for his opera house, which, built and decorated by the Italians between 1687 and 1690, was the most beautiful in all Germany.[131] For this opera house Steffani was engaged as Kapellmeister.[132] A. . . Read More

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Tai ne tik išsami kompozitoriaus biografija, jo estetikos ir kūrybos nagrinėjimas, bet savo giluma prilygsta monografijai apie iškilų XVIII amžiaus kompozitorių, palikusį 100-tomį kūrybos palikimą.
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- Ulysse - May 12, 2021

Sette

There was a composer called Handel
Too much for one country to handle
As soon as he settled
Some people got nettled
And he had to pack up and skedaddle

A sinistra / A destra...

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