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    Making Himself at Home

    Dec 03, 2018 4 minutes
    Review by Sudip Bose

    HANDEL IN LONDON: The Making of a Genius

    BY JANE GLOVER

    Pegasus Books, 448 pp., $28.95

    ONE OF THE GREAT assimilation stories in the history of music involves the transformation of Georg Friedrich Händl, fledgling German composer from the city of Halle, into George Frideric Handel, naturalized British subject and unrivaled master of the English oratorio. Although Handel was never quite fluent in the language of his adopted land, his ability to adapt the poetry of John Milton, John Dryden, and Alexander Pope, to say nothing of the King James Bible, resulted in an output that was as magnificent as it was extensive. By the time of his death in 1759, no one, with the

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