Handel As Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas
author: Ellen T. Harris,
music program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: July 18, 2011, recorded: February 2002, views: 3058
published: July 18, 2011, recorded: February 2002, views: 3058
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MIT Professor of Music Ellen Harris discusses Handel's chamber cantatas written from 1706-23, from a social point of view, exposing the exclusive and secret homosexual society in which they were created. The compositions were written when Handel lived in the homes of aristocratic patrons, first in Italy and then in Germany and England. Harris concentrates on the texts, including for the first time complete translations of all sixty seven cantatas, and discusses them in terms of their classical meanings, social context, and secret codes and private references.
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