Handel in London

<p><b>'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better understand and appreciate Handel’s divinity.' - Donna Leon, author of <i>Handel's Bestiary</i> and the Inspector Brunetti mysteries.</b><br><br><i>Handel in London</i> tells the story of a young German composer who in 1712, followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. That master would become King George II and the composer was George Frideric Handel.<br><br>Handel, then still only twenty-seven and largely self-taught, would be at the heart of musical activity in London for the next four decades, composing masterpiece after masterpiece, whether the glorious coronation anthem, <i>Zadok the Priest</i>, operas such as <i>Giulio Cesare</i>, <