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Serwer, Howard: ‘The World of the Water Music',
H-J
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A Textual and Historical Companion to Handel's ‘Messiah
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Handel: a Celebration of his Life and Times, 1685–1759
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Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought
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MT
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A History of the Oratorio
(Durham, North Carolina 1977)

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H-J
2003

Strohm, Reinhard:
Essays on Handel and Italian Opera
(Cambridge 1985)

Strohm, Reinhard: ‘Handel's Pasticci',
Analecta Musicologica
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Edmund Gibson
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Taylor, Carole: ‘Handel and Frederick, Prince of Wales',
MT
125 (1984)

Taylor, Carole:
Italian Operagoing in London 1700–1745
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(London 1754)

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H-J
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The Handel House in Halle
(Halle 2006)

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Bach, Handel, Scarlatti: Tercentenary Essays
(Cambridge 1985)

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Handel
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Die Barockoper in Hamburg
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Footnotes

∗(a)
A set of arias from
Florindo
in full score, but lacking their voice parts, exists in Manchester. Several other numbers from the opera, arranged for instrumental ensemble or solo keyboard, can be found in manuscripts in the British Library.

∗(b)
Perhaps S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini or even the basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano itself.

∗(c)
Ottoboni wrote libretti, including a lyric drama on the subject of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America.

∗(d)
The piece is not, strictly speaking, an oratorio, though listings of Handel's works generally classify it as such.

∗(e)
Formerly listed as
Io languisco fra le gioie
, from the opening words of one of its arias.

∗(f)
Bach's
Christmas Oratorio
, a supremely successful religious work based entirely on secular cantatas, is probably the best-known example.

∗(g)
The jaundiced Eccles retired to Hampton Wick, where, according to tradition, he took up fishing, cut off his daughters with a shilling and left his estate to his housemaid.

∗(h)
Arbuthnot is not mentioned by name in this letter, but, given his later connexions with Handel, he seems a more likely candidate than Sir David Hamilton, the other royal physician.

∗(i)
In the original sources, he was King of Iberia, part of the area we now know as Georgia. Since the name is also given to the peninsula containing Spain and Portugal, the change was presumably intended to avoid confusion.

∗(j)
During the
Griselda
performances Robinson was aggressively courted by John Mordaunt, Lord Peterborough, hero of the Siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession. Having refused to accept him as a ‘protector', she finally agreed to live with him at his country retreat in Parson's Green, south-west of London, where, Griselda-like, she won friends among the local gentry for her patience and devotion to the crotchety warrior. Peterborough eventually condescended to marry her on his deathbed.

∗(k)
Gasparini had written another opera on the same subject,
Il gran Tamerlano
, to a libretto by Antonio Salvi.

∗(l)
The dedicatory epistle addressed by Haym to Lord Albemarle, attached to the printed libretto, resembles, in the words of a modern musicologist, ‘a final appeal for help from a crew member on a sinking ship'.

∗(m)
For example, the Italian savant Antonio Cocchi, who complained to Giuseppe Riva in November, 17y25, about ‘the immortal mud and the infernal smoke'. For a similar complaint by Rolli, see note on p. 240.

∗(n)
One of the arias used by Vivaldi came from Handel's opera
Ezio
.

∗(o)
King George II's daughter Caroline told her sister Anne that ‘it is not much approved, being among his [Handel's] most pathetic'.

∗(p)
Other reasons behind Rolli's decision to quit London (though he did not do so until after 1741) were the high cost of living and ‘this eternal mud, smoke and damp, in which it is impossible for an honest and able foreigner to make even the most mediocre living'.

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