eprintid: 19071 rev_number: 25 eprint_status: archive userid: 602 dir: disk0/00/01/90/71 datestamp: 2010-02-02 14:26:43 lastmod: 2015-07-23 09:38:26 status_changed: 2010-02-02 14:26:43 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Chrissochoidis, I. creators_id: ICHRI43 title: Handel recovering: fresh light on his affairs in 1737 ispublished: pub subjects: 12000 subjects: 13200 divisions: F24 note: © 2008 Cambridge University Press abstract: The summer and autumn of 1737 remain a foggy patch in Handel biography owing to poor documentation and Handel’s absence from London. We do not know whether his illness led to a rapprochement with the ‘Nobility’ opera, how his visit to Aix-la-Chapel complicated the new opera season or, especially, whether these developments relate to Farinelli’s defection to Spain. This shaky factual ground also restricts our understanding of later events such as Handel’s lucrative benefit in March 1738 and the celebrated Roubiliac statue in Vauxhall Gardens. Thanks to surviving issues of the Daily Advertiser, however, we now can replenish the documentary pool and re-examine Handel’s affairs and their context during this period. date: 2008-09 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1478570608001504 vfaculties: VSHS oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green doi: 10.1017/S1478570608001504 lyricists_name: Chrissochoidis, I lyricists_id: ICHRI43 full_text_status: public publication: Eighteenth Century Music volume: 5 number: 2 pagerange: 237-244 refereed: TRUE issn: 1478-5706 citation: Chrissochoidis, I.; (2008) Handel recovering: fresh light on his affairs in 1737. Eighteenth Century Music , 5 (2) pp. 237-244. 10.1017/S1478570608001504 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570608001504>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/19071/1/19071.pdf