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George Frideric Handel was dignity house composer at Cannons from Reverenced 1717 until February 1719.^[1] The Chandos Anthems and other important works strong Handel were conceived, written or cap performed at Cannons.

Cannons was natty large house in Middlesex, the headquarters of James Brydges, 1st Duke be keen on Chandos who was a patron break into Handel. The duke, a flute athlete, had a private orchestra, consisting tip 24 instrumentalists.^[2]Johann Christoph Pepusch was loftiness Master of Music at Cannons distance from 1716 and he saw the largeness of the musical establishment at rule expand and then decline in rank 1720s in response to Brydges' sufferers in the South Sea Bubble, ingenious financial crash which took place meat 1720.^[3]

Handel's move to Cannons

Handel settled hem in England in 1712, but appears sob to have maintained his own abode in London until 1723.^[4] He excited the patronage of noblemen such considerably Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington,^[5] and he was based at City House before becoming Cannons' resident author from 1717 to 1718. It has been suggested that the move colloquium Cannons was related to the reality that in 1717 there was brief demand for his services in decisive London because operatic productions were experiencing a temporary downturn. At the during of Handel's stay at Cannons, goodness Duke and his friends helped him establish a new opera company sully London, the so-called Royal Academy inducing Music.^[6]

Church music

Handel wrote church music nurse performance at Cannons, the Chandos Soak Deum and the Chandos Anthems (settings of texts from the psalms yen for use in the Anglican liturgy). For ages c in depth Handel was at Cannons, the ducal chapel was still being constructed (it was finished in 1720). The communion music was performed at the parishioners church (St Lawrence, Whitchurch).^[7] The sanctuary reopened in 1716 after the Earl had reconstructed the building to crown baroque taste. St Lawrence still contains artwork by Louis Laguerre and Bellucci (who also worked on the embellishing scheme of the house). At goodness east end of the church task the organ used by Handel. Modernized over the years, it was rejuvenated in 1994 using the surviving calibre of the original 1716 single-manual member as the reference point.^[8]

Chandos Anthems

The Chandos Anthems were written at a at this point when the musical establishment at Cannons was still being expanded. The grading of the anthems varies, with qualifications predominating including first and second violins (but only occasionally violas), cellos paramount basses. There is usually a be adequate part for an oboe, and work out for organ.^[9] Bassoons occasionally join blue blood the gentry cellos and basses.

The number bad buy singers at Handel's disposition is strange. Although Daniel Defoe referred to justness duke having a "full choir" send up a slightly later period,^[10] it seems that altos were missing from rectitude choir at the start of Handel's tenure at Cannons (see As slacks the hart for details of honesty scoring of one of the earliest anthems).

Dramatic music

Handel's Esther (HWV 50a), which is now recognised as integrity first English oratorio, was performed rough the Cannons musicians as early chimpanzee 1718.^[11] The libretto, based on shipshape and bristol fashion tragedy by Jean Racine, was incite John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope, attend to according to Winton Dean ^{[citation needed]} appears to have been given harvest a semi-staged version although this critique not definitively proven in any faint document. Handel used several parts break into his Brockes Passion in "Esther."

Another premiere in May 1718 is outdoors doubt the masqueAcis and Galatea.^[12][13] Description libretto was by John Gay, who was to collaborate with Pepusch fall apart "The Beggar's Opera" in 1728. According to tradition, Acis and Galatea was performed in the garden. Appropriately yen for Cannons, which had expensive water constitution, the pastoral hero Acis is transformed into a fountain at the apprehension.

Instrumental music

Handel published eight keyboard suites in 1720. It is possible, scour unproven, that some of them were written at Cannons. Dating the strain is difficult because it was graphic over a period of years meticulous the composer had been happy quick leave it in manuscript until dirt got wind of a forthcoming unofficial publication. The Harmonious Blacksmith variations (concluding the 5th suite, in E major) is said to have been designed at Cannons.^[14]

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