Handel
Handel
“The impact of his Italian journey was permanent, the experience mediated in later years through his habit of continually recycling melodic ideas or remodelling entire numbers from the works he composed during this period to adapt them to a new context, with the nonchalant skill of a couturier fitting a dress with the help of swatches, shears and pins. He was ready now to begin a professional career among the courts of Germany and, operating with his customary shrewdness, had gained various useful contacts and introductions from noblemen and diplomats encountered during his travels.
Ferdinando de’ Medici was one of these, apparently ready to bury any differences between them as rivals for the favour of Vittoria Tarquini. In a letter of recommendation addressed to Prince Karl of Pfalz Neuburg, governor of the Austrian province of Tyrol, dated 9 November 1709, Ferdinando wrote, ‘During his stay here, Georg Friedrich Handel, native of Saxony, has shown himself so endowed with honourable s...entiments, civil behaviour, a great gift of languages and a more than ordinary talent for music, that since he has striven to earn my good will, I cannot refrain from trying to procure, on his behalf, the most useful support for him on his return to Germany.MoreLess
Ferdinando de’ Medici was one of these, apparently ready to bury any differences between them as rivals for the favour of Vittoria Tarquini. In a letter of recommendation addressed to Prince Karl of Pfalz Neuburg, governor of the Austrian province of Tyrol, dated 9 November 1709, Ferdinando wrote, ‘During his stay here, Georg Friedrich Handel, native of Saxony, has shown himself so endowed with honourable s...entiments, civil behaviour, a great gift of languages and a more than ordinary talent for music, that since he has striven to earn my good will, I cannot refrain from trying to procure, on his behalf, the most useful support for him on his return to Germany.MoreLess
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