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    The Lives of George Frideric Handel

    By David Hunter

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    To evaluate the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say? This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, not only to produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of biography and dissemination by using Handel's life and lives as a case study. By examining the images of Handel to be found in biographies and music histories - the genius, the religious profound, the master of musical styles, the distiller into music of English sentiment, the glorifier of the Hanoverians, the hymner of the middle class, the independent, the prodigious, the generous, the sexless, the successful, the wealthy, the bankrupt, the pious, the crude, the heroic, the devious, the battler of ill-fortune, the moral exemplar - and by adding new factual information, David Hunter shows how events are manipulated into stories and tropes. Onesuch trope has been employed to portray numerous persons as Handel's enemies regardless of whether Handel considered them as such. Picking apart the writing of Handel's biographers and other reporters, Hunter exposes the narrative underpinnings - the lies, confusions, presumptions, and conclusions, whether direct and inferred or assumed - to show how Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories have moulded our understanding of the musician, the man andthe icon.

    DAVID HUNTER is Music Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoydell Press
    Release dateNov 19, 2015
    ISBN9781782047308
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    David Hunter

    David Honaker (pen name "David Hunter") is a husband, father/-in-law, and grandfather. He resides in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife, guinea pig, and blue-eyed cat. Born and raised in the United States he lived in Brazil, later spending a few months in the sovereign and independent State of Israel. These and other life experiences heightened his love of, and respect for, different cultures and beliefs while contributing to a deeper understanding of the complex religious-geo-political issues impacting our world. He continues to be a student of major world religions with a focus on the four Abrahamic faiths (Judiasm, Christianity, Islam, and Bahá'í), geopolitics, languages, physics, mathematics, and all things "geek." David masterfully interweaves many of his passions, coupled with current world events, into his books Relatively new to literary circles, he has already been compared to authors in similar genres such as James Patterson for Suspense and Espionage and Isaac Asimov for Science Fiction. His first book in the "Pendulum of Time" thrillogy, "Kill Them Wherever You Find Them," is hailed as a, "... work of pure genius combining the best of Thriller-Suspense with believable Science Fiction in a manner never before seen. Through the 'Pendulum of Time' trilogy the author has created an entirely new category of writing!"

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