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George Frideric Handel was the house composer at Cannons from August 1717 until February 1719. [1] The Chandos Anthems and other important works by Handel were conceived, written or first performed at Cannons. Cannons was a large house in Middlesex, the seat of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos who was a patron of Handel.
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ ˈ h æ n d əl / HAN-dəl; [a] baptised Georg Fried[e]rich Händel, [b] German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] ⓘ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) [3] [c] was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.
The Story of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (Boston: B. Humphries, 1965) H. Earle Johnson, Musical Interludes in Boston, 1795-1830 (NY: Columbia University Press, 1943) Teresa M. Neff, "In the Public Eye: the Handel and Haydn Society and Music Reviews, 1840-1860". Symposium sponsored by the American Literature Association: "Musical ...
The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, [1] is a concert overture in E ♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece commemorates Russia 's successful defense against the French invasion of the nation in 1812.
The Boston Classicists were first referred to as a "school" in the second edition of Gilbert Chase's America’s Music (1966). [1]We must attempt to define the prevailing New England attitude toward musical art, that is to say, the attitude that dominated the musical thinking of those New England composers who, in the final decade of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth ...
The German translation used by Handel was made by Friedrich Christian Feustking. [2] The recitatives of the opera are in German, and while most of the arias are also in German, many are in Italian, as was the custom at the opera house in Hamburg. [3] Almira is the sole example among Handel's many operas with no role for a castrato. [3]
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Cannons in the 20th and 21st centuries are usually divided into sub-categories, and given separate names. Some of the most widely used types of modern cannons are howitzers, mortars, guns, and autocannon, although a few very large-calibre cannons, custom-designed, have also been constructed. Modern artillery is used in a variety of roles ...