Conference

Great among the Nations:
Handel and National Musical Styles
20-21 November 1999
King's College, London, England

Handel and the national musical styles of his period were the theme of this Handel Institute conference.

Howard Serwer:  Handel and the Coordination of National Styles: Bukofzer Revisited

Konstanze Musketa:  Handel and the Central German Musical Tradition

Annette Landgraf:  The German Tradition in Handel's English Oratorios

Colin Timms: What did Handel learn from Steffani's Operas?

Michael Talbot: Music at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice in the Time of Handel

John Roberts:   Handel's Opera Ghosts: Musical Relationships with Italian Settings of his London Librettos

Eddy Bénimédourène: Stylistic Metamorphoses in Handel's Overtures

Graham Sadler: Rameau's Debt to Handel

Sarah McCleave: Grotesque and Genteel: Two Sides of 'Terpsichore'

Graham Cummings: Handel and the Confused Shepherdess

Bruce Wood:  Handel and English Music

Xavier Cervantes: 'The Phoenix of Our Age in all Modes of Musical Expression': the Handelian Exception

Graydon Beeks: 'Imitate the Beauties': Purcell as reflected by Croft