Handel at the Court of Kings

by Opal Wheeler

Book Overview

With clarity and with admirable simplicity, keyed to the understanding of children, Opal Wheeler has traced the many-sided career of George Frederic Handel, whose restless nature vied always with his tremendous ability as a composer and director. Handel's strange boyhood, clouded by the fact that his father did not want him to become a musician, and the later years when, thanks to the patronage of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, his music was played...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933573031
• ISBN13: 9781933573038
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Zeezok Publishing
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.3"