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HandelJonathan Keates
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Handel

352 pagesFirst published 19855 editions
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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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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EbookRandom House Group Limited2009—9781407020839
EditionBodley Head20084329780224082020
HardcoverEveryman's Library1998—9780375400742
PaperbackVictor Gollancz19933529780575054813
EditionGollancz19853469780575035737
BiographyBiography & AutobiographyComposersMusicNonfictionComposers, biographyHandel, george frideric, 1685-1759