Conference

Handel in Cities and Houses
23-24 November 2002
King's College, London, England

This conference considered Handel, and his activities as a composer and performer, in the context of the places where he lived and worked - during his early years in Germany, his apprenticeship in Italy, and maturity in London.

Stanley Sadie: Composers and Cities

Wolfgang Ruf: Halle in 1680-1703

Konstanze Musketa: Handel's Birthplace

Dorothea Schröder: Private Musical Life in Hamburg around 1705

Annette Landgraf: Aachen and Burtscheid in Handel's Time

Richard King: Anne of Hanover as Patron

Ursula Kirkendale: Handel with Ruspoli in Rome, Cerveteri, Civitavecchia, Vignanello: New Documents from December 1706 to December 1708

Enrico Careri: The Profession of Musician in Early 18th-Century Rome

Carlo Vitali: Handel and Tuscany

Graydon Beeks: : ‘Whilst the Musicall Instruments were Tuned’: Handel and the Performance of Secular Music at Cannons

David Hunter: Royal Patronage of Handel in London: the Rewards of Pensions and Office

Leonard Schwarz: Handel's London

John Greenacombe: Mr Andrews, Handel and Barn Elms

Thomas McGeary: The Politics of Handel's London Operas

Xavier Cervantes: Lies and Forgeries: the Case of a Handel Ghost Libretto Reconsidered

John Roberts: Young Mr Savage, Handel and the Contested ‘Gloria’