Handel, Who Knew What He Liked: Candlewick Biographies

Name: Handel, Who Knew What He Liked: Candlewick Biographies
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ISBN: 9780763665999

ISBN-10: 0763665991

ISBN-13: 9780763665999

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Authors: M. T. Anderson, Kevin Hawkes

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A droll biography reveals the high notes—and the low notes—in the life of the world’s foremost composer of Baroque music.This is not your usual picture book biography. Nor was George Frideric Handel your everyday eighteenth-century composer. This witty and yet rigorously researched and accessible biography captures Handel’s essential spirit—from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to play music against his father’s orders to a young man who imported forty-five pounds of mountain snow to chill wine for a gala—as well as his remarkable, enduring musical triumphs. But M. T. Anderson also shows Handel’s struggles and chronicles the illness, ill fortune, and despair that led to his…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Publication date: 9/10/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 48
Size: 6.48" wide x 9.26" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.660

M. T. Anderson is the New York Times bestselling author of Feed (a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize), The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation (winner of the 2006 National Book Award), and Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book). He is the author of the graphic novels: Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, with Andrea Offermann, and The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge (a National Book Award Finalist), with Eugene Yelchin. He lives in New England.