Hunter, David

Handel's students, two lovers and a shipwreck / HUNTER, David .-- London; Oxford : Oxford University Press, , 2011:

Early Music -- Vol. 39, núm. 2,May. 2011, p. 157


RESUMEN: Begininnig at Hamburg in 1703, Handel took pupils, and was involved in teaching and coaching throughout his life. Heretofore no attempt has been made to list his students and to distinguish between them in term of the skills and experience that they brought to the lesson. Two groups can be identified: beginners such as the daughters of King George II, and professionals such as the singers Susannah Maria Cibber and Caterina Galli. The emotional entanglements of the young Handel with two of his female students are documented. Handel´s relatively limited number of student is contrasted with the experience of Johann Pepusch who had to maintain a large studio Throughout his long life and who contemplated retirement to Bermuda in the late 1720s as part or George Berkeley´s aborted scheme for a college. Keywords: George Frideric Handel, teaching, students, lovers, Johann Pepusch