Handel, his Contemporaries and Early English Oratorio

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  • Mathew Gardner Ruprecht-Karlova univerza v Heidelbergu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.48.1.37-48

Keywords:

Handel, Greene, Boyce, Apollo Acad- emy, English Oratorio

Abstract

Surveys the development of English oratorio from the first public performances of Handel’s Esther (1732) until c. 1740. Handel’s influence over his English contemporaries is discussed referring to style, formal design, subject choice and allegorical content, providing a more complete than hitherto picture of the English oratorio the genre in the 1730s.

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Author Biography

  • Mathew Gardner, Ruprecht-Karlova univerza v Heidelbergu
    Matthew GARDNER predava muzikologijo na Univerzi v Heidelbergu, kjer je leta 2007 doktoriral s tezo »Händel and Maurice Greene’s Circle at the Apollo Academy: the Music and Intellectual Contexts of Orato- rios, Odes and Masques« (V&R Unipress, 2008). Objavil je dela o Händlu in njegovih angleških sodobnikih, je urednik zbirke Hallische Händel-Ausgabe in trenutno dela na raziskovalnem projektu The Business of Singing in England 1660–1760, ki ga financira Nemška raziskovalna skupnost (DFG).

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Published

1. 06. 2012

Issue

Vol. 48 No. 1 (2012)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2012 Mathew Gardner

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How to Cite

Gardner, M. (2012). Handel, his Contemporaries and Early English Oratorio. Musicological Annual, 48(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.48.1.37-48
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