Chapter I
Birth and parentage—studies under Zachow at Halle—Hamburg—friendship and
duel with Mattheson—Almira—departure for Italy.
Chapter II
Arrival in Italy—Rodrigo—Rome: Cardinal Ottoboni and the
Scarlattis—Naples: Venice: Agrippina—appointment at Hanover—London:
Rinaldo.
Chapter III
Second visit to London—Italian opera—George I and the Water
Music—visit to Germany—Canons and the Duke of Chandos—establishment of
the Royal Academy of Music.
Chapter IV
Buononcini—Cuzzoni, Faustina, and Senesino—death of George I—The
Beggar's Opera—collapse of the Academy.
Chapter V
Handel naturalized—partnership with Heidegger—Esther—the Opera of
the Nobility—visit to Oxford—opera season at Covent Garden—Charles
Jennens—collapse of both opera-houses.
Chapter VI
Bankruptcy and paralysis—visit to Aix-la-Chapelle—the last
operas—Vauxhall Gardens—Handel's "borrowings"—visit to
Ireland—Messiah and other oratorios.
Chapter VII
Judas Maccabaeus—Gluck—Thomas Morell—incipient blindness—Telemann and
his garden—last oratorios—death—character and personality.
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