Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . MEDAL STRUCK IN 1869 IN COMMEMORATION OF THE ONE-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF HANDELS DEATH. GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL BY HORATIO PARKER THE childhood of Handel was sufficiently like that of other people topass without extended comment. His grandfather was a coppersmith, his father a barbers apprenticewho became a successful surgeon with a court appointment and a positionof some influence. His was a middle-class family of entire respectabilityand small means, albeit not without ambition and a certain upwardtendency. Handels father, already sixty
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . MEDAL STRUCK IN 1869 IN COMMEMORATION OF THE ONE-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF HANDELS DEATH. GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL BY HORATIO PARKER THE childhood of Handel was sufficiently like that of other people topass without extended comment. His grandfather was a coppersmith, his father a barbers apprenticewho became a successful surgeon with a court appointment and a positionof some influence. His was a middle-class family of entire respectabilityand small means, albeit not without ambition and a certain upwardtendency. Handels father, already sixty-three at the birth of Georg Friedrich,was reluctant to see the son of his old age become a musician To thiscircumstance we owe the romantic story of the visit of father and son tothe court of Sachse-Weissenfels, the prince pleading with the father thatthe boy be educated as a musician instead of a lawyer. Handel himselfwas too young to show any inclination toward law,— what boy ever did ?— but seems already to have given evidence of fitness for
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