Let's Get the Facts Right About That Culloden Song for the World Cup
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PICTURE, if you will, the scene at No 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, in the summer of 1746. Still glorying in the popular acclaim brought about by his Messiah, first performed in Dublin four years previously, the composer George Frideric Handel receives a letter from the ill-fated Frederick, Prince of Wales.
It is a commission for an oratorio to celebrate the victory of the Duke of Cumberland and his Hanoverian forces over his cousin, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender to the British throne, at Culloden in April of that year.See the full content of this document
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Let's Get the Facts Right About That Culloden Song for the World Cup
Faithful to Frederick and King George II, whose father and fellow German, George I, had appointed him composer to the Chapel Royal with a state pension of GBP 400, Handel duly...
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