He accompanied the Scarlattis to Naples and remained with them about a year, and there was great rivalry in regard to the harpsichord playing of Händel and Domenico Scarlatti.
These melodies were seldom written down, but were passed from one to another orally; and down to the time of Händel and Bach very little recognition of the folk-song as a possible element in art had been accorded by any trained musician.
They can be found in the Händel "Lessons for the Harpsichord," edited by Kohler, in the Peters edition.
Händel gives but five variations, and these are all of very moderate difficulty.
The most complete biography of Händel is that by Chrysander.
The diatonic chords and combinations in which Händel found an ever complete satisfaction are not sufficient for Bach, and we find continually new chords, evasive cadences, and a flowing continuity of thought belonging to the master mind.
The student desiring to explore the most advanced variation writing will find examples ready to his hand in Brahms' variation on a theme of Händel and the two books of variations on a theme of Paganini.
In order to appreciate the importance of Bach and Händel in the history of music, it is necessary to know something of the condition of the world of music when they commenced to work in it.
Händel had all his life a predilection for diatonic tonality, and it is very rarely indeed that he deals with the chromatic at all, and never with the enharmonic.
The Händel variations begin somewhat modestly, and as the theme is in the major mode and the harmonies limited almost entirely to tonic and dominant, Brahms was almost compelled to be simple and melodious at times.
At the age of sixteen young Händel had obtained a position as organist, and he was also a fine clavecin player and a good violinist.
BACH AND HÄNDEL The importance of Bach in the world of music.
As compared with the works of Händel or Bach, those of Beethoven do not make a great display in volume.
With a sure instinct he has given the preference to popular geniuses like Händel and Beethoven.
Buchor's clever adaptations have resulted in driving the fine thoughts of Händel and Schubert and Mozart and Beethoven into the memories of the French people, and making them part of their lives.
Passing reference is due to three further German contemporaries of Händel who were slaves to Italian principles.
HÄNDEL represents solidity and sonority, and obtained the best results when employing the orchestra for massed effects in conjunction with the chorus.
Thus unvarnished phrases of Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti were boldly transfused into the works of Händel when his own Muse failed him.
In specifically instrumental music, Scarlatti paved the way for Bach and Händel by writing for two violins and a violoncello, treated as soli instruments to an accompaniment of a string orchestra.
HAYDN was the third great orchestral innovator in historic evolution, and from him date the beginnings of modern orchestration, just as Bach represents organ and Protestant Church music, Händel the oratorio, and Gluck the drama.
When King George was going from Whitehall to Westminster in his barge, Händel followed with a company of musicians, playing a succession of pieces, which the king knew well enough for a production of his truant capellmeister.
For upwards of twenty years, Händel pursued his course in London as a composer of Italian operas, of which the number reached about forty.
In the "Israel in Egypt" Händel illustrates a different phase of his talent.
The influence of Händel upon the later course of music is by no means so marked as that of Bach.
Händel assisted at the production of these two operas, and is reported to have said that the author knew no more of counterpoint than a pig.
Händel seems to have used toe and heel habitually in almost equal proportion.
In this place Händel had already produced a number of elaborate anthems and one oratorio--"Esther.
He came, therefore, to Milan about 1701, a few years before Händel came there.
This was altogether a different matter, for Händel had his unsettled account with the elector of Hanover, upon whom he had so cavalierly turned his back.
The older Händel died, and before he was nineteen George Frederick made his way to Hamburg, which was then one of the musical centers of Germany.
The adagios of Bach and Händel are all of the masculine gender.
Händel never married, and seems never even to have been in love, though he was an unusually pious son and a fond brother.
This statement may be taken as only a proof either that the dean had so tangled a career of his own that he could not see any other man's straight; or that Händel was really more of a flirt than tradition makes him out.
In his later years Händel was not so beautiful as he might have been, and Queen Anne, alluding to his bulk, said that his hands were feet and his fingers toes.
Rockstro said that Händel was engaged more than once; once to the aforementioned Vittoria Tesi--this in spite of the tradition that woman proposed and man disposed; and later to two other women.
In his will Händel left money to two cousins, also to two widows, and one other woman.
In London Händel reigned as never musician reigned before or since.
The second woman was a personage of high estate, and offered to marry Händel if he would give up his career.
Dean Swift is said to have said: "I admire Händel principally because he conceals his petticoat peccadillos with such perfection.
Doctor Mainwaring says that Händel was Apollo and she Daphne.
Wild stories are told of the escapades of this brilliant singer, whom Händel never brought to London among all his importations--and with good reason, if she had once pursued him as legend tells.
The relation of men like Bach or Händel toward Beethoven, Wagner held to be analogous to that of the prophets toward Jesus, namely, one of expectancy.
His naïve reference to this country[D] refers to the offer made him by the Händel and Haydn Society of Boston for an oratorio, the text of which was to be furnished by them.
He once remarked to a friend who called on him, "Händel is the greatest composer that ever lived.
Händel could have got the job, if he would have had the girl.
For Händel was almost equally famous both as a composer and a digester.
In 1720 a company for the giving of Italian opera was formed, and Händel placed at its head.
On the other hand, there are reasons for believing that Händel never took the trouble to examine any of Bach's clavichord music.
By 1742 Händel was again in prosperous circumstances, his "Messiah" having been a tremendous success.
Bach twice made an effort to see Händel at Halle, but without success.
At fifteen years of age, Händel was beginning to be well known as a clavichord and organ player, in the latter capacity becoming specially celebrated for his wonderful improvisations.
On one occasion when the harpsichordist was absent Händel took his place with so much success that it paved the way for a hearing of his operas.
This oratorio, while containing much of the floridity and repetition of Händel at his worst, is also marked with the erudition and largeness of Händel at his best.
At the time when such puerility was disturbing this cradle of freedom and cacophony, Bach and Händel were at work in their contrapuntal webs, the Scarlattis, Corelli and Tartini and Porpora were alive.
It was given with notable effect in 1892 by the Händel and Haydn Society of Boston.
His "Redemption Hymn" is one of his most important works, and was produced in Boston by the Händel and Haydn Society in 1877.
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