The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia (Broché)

George Frideric Handel was born and educated in Germany, flourished in Italy, and chose to become British. One of the most cosmopolitan great composers, some of Handel's music has remained in the popular repertory since his lifetime, and a broad variety of his theatre works, from Italian operas to English oratorios, has experienced a dramatic renaissance since the late twentieth century. A large number of publications devoted to Handel's life and music have appeared from his own time until the present day, but The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia is the first resource to gather the full range of present knowledge and leading new scholarship into a single volume for convenient and illuminating reference.