While Handel could dash off the most sublime music at remarkable speed hewould bestow countless hours on revising the minutest details. He combined afiery tempe... » 

While Handel could dash off the most sublime music at remarkable speed hewould bestow countless hours on revising the minutest details. He combined afiery temper with great loyalty and generosity. Few composers have been sofeted in their lifetimes and yet Handel was also vilified and conspiredagainst. This book presents his biography. «