Georg Friderich Händels Lebensbeschreibung
Johann Mattheson
In 1761 Johann Mattheson, Handel’s friend, rival and duelling partner from the Hamburg opera, translated John Mainwaring’s Memoirs of the Life of Handel into German – and could not keep quiet: wherever Mainwaring speaks of Hamburg he interrupts with long corrections of his own, he adds a combative preface, footnotes on singers, operas and dates, and comments on the catalogue and the «Observations» on Handel’s works. Newly transcribed from the first edition (Munich and Library of Congress copies) and read throughout against the scan, Mattheson’s interpolations set off in the text, with 194 notes on persons and works, links to Chrysander’s Handel edition and a picture of Chrysander’s envelope note from his manuscript copy. Edited by Bernhard Trebuch. Reading sample: the preface and the life up to Handel’s departure for England, with the notes.
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