Essays on Handel and Italian Opera

by Reinhard Strohm

Book Overview

In this valuable collection of essays, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Handel's birth, Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition, focusing on the Italian school, to which they are so crucially indebted. Handel's immediate heritage included the figures of Scarlatti, Gasparini and Vivaldi; this book establishes that context, concentrating on contemporary operatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521264286
• ISBN13: 9780521264280
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"