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Ruth Smith, Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought

Weber, William

Weber reveals that Smith shows us how shrewdly Handel and his librettists tailored their works for a specific intellectual and political situation, and in so doing came up with an extraordinary new musical experience.

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December 24, 2014