Table of Contents

Introduction
The Audience: Three Broad Categories, Three Gross Errors
The Audience: Partner and Problem
Musicians and Other Occupational Hazards
Patrons and Pensions
Musical Genres and Compositional Practices
Self and Health
Self and Friends
Nations and Stories
Biographers' Stories
Conclusion
Bibliography

Reviews

At the heart of his project is an attempt to explore the gap between image and individual-in this case, between 'Handel' and Handel. Handel as image, argues Hunter, is a phenomenon that has superseded Handel the person.the care and intelligence with which Hunter interrogates the facts of Handel's life, and their use by biographers, should attract the attention of all readers interested in the perils and pleasures of biography.
*EARLY MUSIC*

[A] unique contribution to Handel scholarship.
*MUSIC & LETTERS*

Handel was an early entrepreneurial composer: he owned his own opera company, he borrowed from himself and others to increase his musical output, and he was impressively resourceful for his time. This study focuses on the multiple representations of Handel that were at least partly a result of his legendary resourcefulness as well as on questions that remain about his sexuality, health (disability), nationalism, friends and acquaintances, and so on.
*CHOICE*