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Winner of the Yorkshire Post Music Book Award 1987.

Reviews

"The first of two volumes in a long-awaited study by two preeminent Handel scholars....Essential for all music libraries."--Choice"Offers an enormous amount of valuable information and many new and perceptive insights. Scholars and general readers alike can learn from it."--The New York Times Book Review"A rigorous investigation of the bewilderingly abundant musical and literary sources of each opera...its most lasting influence will be on all future editions of Handel's music."--Early Music