By Ellen T. Harris
An intimate portrait of Handel’s lifestyles and internal circle, modeled after one of many composer’s favourite types: the fugue.
During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s song reached from courtroom to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and stuffed crowded taverns, however the guy himself―known to so much because the composer of Messiah―is a little bit a secret. even though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts or even supplied for his or her upkeep on his loss of life, little or no of an intimate nature survives.
One document―Handel’s will―offers us a slender window into his own lifestyles. In it, he recollects not just family members and shut colleagues but additionally local neighbors. looking for the non-public guy in the back of the general public determine, Ellen T. Harris has spent years monitoring down the letters, diaries, own debts, felony circumstances, and different files attached to those bequests. the result's a tightly woven tapestry of London within the first half the eighteenth century, one who interlaces shiny descriptions of Handel’s song with tales of loyalty, crafty, and betrayal.
With this absolutely new strategy, Harris has accomplished whatever more than biography. Layering the interconnecting tales of Handel’s associates just like the topics and countersubjects of a fugue, Harris introduces us to an bold, sensible, beneficiant, amazing, and improper guy, hiding in complete view in the back of his public persona.
43 illustrations; three maps
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15. AT(NP), 8:314-5. 16. , 5:389. 17. More, CSPW, AA, 46. 18. , 42. As it stands, this argument cannot count against Cartesian mechanism, since Descartes' material particles do not move fortuitously, but according to divinely-established laws of nature. However, More did not believe that the initial chaos in Descartes' cosmogony, ruled by mechanical law, could have devolved into the ordered world we know without guiding Providence. A more serious problem is that 'blind fortuitous jumblings' are necessarily not subject to any natural laws whatever, whether mechnical or not.
18 In the 1662 edition of the Antidote, and later in the Enchiridion metaphysicum, More introduced the air-pump experiments that Boyle reported in his New Experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring of the air (1660), to show that one of them at least could not be accounted for in mechanical terms. 19 How can the sucker of an exhausted air-pump draw upwards of its own accord a weight of 100 Ibs. or more? More concedes that Boyle's hypothesis of 'an elastick power in the air' is the most plausible explanation, yet such an enormous pressure ought to exist everywhere in the air; and a pat of butter of the same diameter as the sucker, for example, ought to be squeezed flat, and the liquids squeezed out of it, with a total force of 200 Ibs, which obviously does not happen.
33. AT(NP), 5:383, from Gabbey, 211. 34. , 213. 35. 'Quod vero addit externam aliquam esse vim, sive a Deo sit, sive a substantia ali qua incorporea a Deo creata, qua materia in motum excitatur ... ac si Divina illa vis singula corpora immediate impelleret quae moventur, magna erit difficultas; frustra enim essent mutui corporum impulsus', AT(NP), 5:646, 356. 36. John Henry, 'Occult Qualities'. Henry More and the limits of mechanism 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. More, CSPW, IS, 11. Ibid. Hyrne to More, 19 aug.