Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . at the hehn long before he had to encounter someof these shoals which embarrass every manager and iinpresario-Patrons and sinqers besfan to have Avhims and to show theirtempers, and Handel, with his rough independence and wantof respect, was not the man to tolerate much interference. Hismethod was inartistic but thorough. If you vill not sing vat Ido write, I vill take you by ze vaist and throw you out of de
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . at the hehn long before he had to encounter someof these shoals which embarrass every manager and iinpresario-Patrons and sinqers besfan to have Avhims and to show theirtempers, and Handel, with his rough independence and wantof respect, was not the man to tolerate much interference. Hismethod was inartistic but thorough. If you vill not sing vat Ido write, I vill take you by ze vaist and throw you out of devindow, was the kind of alternative with which ho confrontedthose songstresses of his company who dared to disregard hiswishes. Needless to say that such want of tact only hastened aclimax, which was reached during the 1728 season, when adisgraceful public squabble between the singers Cuzzoni andFaustina—supported by their respective factions—took place HANDEL AND ENGLISH MUSIC. 121 1742] on the stage of the Hayiuarket Theatre. Then the conij)anywas dissolved. The folloAving year another scheme was afloat. Handel andHeideo-^er—known in theatrical annals as the uirliest man in. GEORGE rREDERICK HAXDEL, BY SIR JAMES THORXIULL. {FitzivilUam Museum, Cambridr/e.) Europe—co-operated and took the Kings Theatre in the Hay-market. For this enterprise the persevering musician foundnew performers and composed new operas—Lothario, Parthenope,Poms, , Sosarme, and Orlando; but he seemed besetwith opposition, which, growing stronger and stronger, forced 12: THE AGE OF WALPOLE. HisFailure. Characterof MsOperas. him to abandon tlie partnership. This was in iTo-t. Dis-couraged, but not defeated, the resohite musician venturedyet a third effort with opera—this time solely on his ownaccount—despite a strong opposition of aristocracy and singerspledged to ruin him. He had fallen out Avith Senesino—oneof those famous sopranist singers that figured in the operaperformances of t
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