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Handel's Messiah : A Celebration
by Luckett, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151384371
- ISBN 13
- 9780151384372
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
San Diego, CA, U.S.A.: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1993. 258pp/illus. A study and celebration of Handel's great masterwork. Includes numerous illustrations, a summary of main variants, a bibliography and index. The author is Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and an acknowledged authority on seventeenth and eighteenth century music. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
An authority on eighteenth-century music explores the background and composition of Messiah and gives the complex subsequent history of the work. Paintings, engravings, caricatures, and facsimiles of Handel's autograph score illustrate the text. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002978
- Title
- Handel's Messiah : A Celebration
- Author
- Luckett, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151384371
- ISBN 13
- 9780151384372
- Publisher
- Harcourt Trade Publishers
- Place of Publication
- San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- HANDEL GEORGE FRIDERIC 1685 1759 MUSIC CLASSICAL Handel\\Haendel\\Oratorium\\componeren\\componisten\\composing
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- Music;
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About the Seller
DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books
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