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Biographers of Handel have more than once drawn attention to phases in which he seems to have suffered from the inability to make a definite decision.
If you would retain your pretty head on your shoulders keep your treason to yourself," laughed Gay. "But I confess I like the Germans no more than you do. Yet there are exceptions. Pepusch has made his home here his country turned him out and there's clever Mr. Handel. The English know more about his music than do his countrymen.
It is evident that MILTON, MICHAEL ANGELO, and HANDEL, belong to the same order of minds; the same imaginative powers, and the same sensibility, are only operating with different materials.
But it is also known that he was in Hamburg for a few months during the winter of 1703-04, and, if he met Handel at that time, the rest of Mainwaring's story becomes much more credible than subsequent biographers have been willing to admit.
'But still, I have no doubt 'Believe me, you can't go by his not liking his lessons, assured Madame Frabelle, as she ate a muffin. 'That has nothing to do with it at all. The young Mozart 'Mozart? I thought he played the piano when he was only three? 'Handel, I mean or was it Meyerbeer? At any rate you'll see I'm right.
She sang Handel and Haydn to the family of evenings, and engaged in a large piece of worsted work, as if she had been born to the business and as if this kind of life was to continue with her until she should sink to the grave in a polite old age, leaving regrets and a great quantity of consols behind her as if there were not cares and duns, schemes, shifts, and poverty waiting outside the park gates, to pounce upon her when she issued into the world again.
Seeing that these things happened in the eighteenth century, I need not add that both women were romantic enough to go into a decline, and die beautifully. Whatever food music may have been to Händel's greatness, there was another food that rivalled it in his esteem; and that food was the symphonic poetry of the cook. For Händel was almost equally famous both as a composer and a digester.
When he had filled it for the third time he said "There is the Bach and the Handel sonata waiting for us; we ought to be getting to work." "I'm quite ready, father. I suppose I must not eat any more oranges," and she surveyed her plate full of skins. Mr. Innes took up the lamp, Evelyn called to the servant to get another, and followed him into the music-room.
With these two exceptions wine and clothes his patronage was more indiscriminate than judicious. In fact, he patronized for the sake of patronizing; and as he was always in search of a new miracle, it is no wonder that he was sometimes disappointed that his Landseers sometimes turned out to have no eyes, and his musicians more fitted to play the Handel to a pump than an organ.
Each German prince had his Capellmeister; and English nobles and gentlemen, wealthier than German princes, differing from them only in not being permitted to assume a pretentious title, had each his Musick-master. I believe I could get together a long list of musicians who were thus kept. It will be remembered that when Handel came to England he quickly entered the service of the Duke of Chandos.
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