Handel in Context

Annette Landgraf is Research Fellow and a member of the editorial office of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. She is co-editor of the Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia (2009), and editor of the Händel-Jahrbuch. She has published extensively on Handel subjects and is a specialist in editing and reception history. Helen Coffey is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Open University, a Council Member of The Handel Institute and co-editor of the six-volume George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents She has additionally published on various aspects of German and Austrian musical culture c.1500–c.1750.

• Part I. Character, Lifestyle, Relationships: 1. Handel's Europe Peter H. Wilson; 2. Lifestyle and social status Ellen T. Harris; 3. Family Helen Coffey; 4. Business acumen Carole Taylor; 5. Handel and contemporary composers Graydon Beeks; 6. Handel and his librettists Donald Burrows; 7. Performers Matthew Gardner; 8. Publishers Jens Wehmann; Part II. Cities, Courts, Networks: 9. Halle Konstanze Musketa; 10. Hamburg Reinmar Emans; 11. Florence, Rome, Naples Berthold Over; 12. Venice Beth Glixon; 13. Hanover, Düsseldorf, Dresden Helen Coffey; 14. London: the royal court Donald Burrows; 15. British private residences Ellen T. Harris; 16. London theatres Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume; 17. London: concert life Berta Joncus; 18. Dublin Tríona O'Hanlon; Part III. Compositional Contexts: 19. Musical genres and style Reinhard Strohm; 20. Creative process Matthew Gardner; 21. Borrowing and composition John H. Roberts; 22. Performers and performance practice I: singers Suzanne Aspden; 23. Performers and performance practice II: instrumentalists and the orchestra Donald Burrows; 24. Staging priorities in Handel opera Michael Burden; Part IV. Reception and Legacy: 25. The national figure Helen Coffey; 26. Biography Annette Landgraf; 27. Collectors and collections Katharine Hogg; 28. Editing Handel Annette Landgraf; 29. Composers after Handel David Wyn Jones; 30. Performing Handel Matthew Gardner; 31. Staging Handel's music dramas David Vickers; 32. Handel reception in Europe Annette Landgraf; 33. Handel renaissances Elaine Kelly; 34. America Joe Lockwood; 35. Australasia Samantha Owens; 36. India, South Africa, Canada Estelle Joubert.

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