Conference: Handel at Court

Join us for the biennial conference of the Handel Institute.

Schedule

Friday 23 November, Handel House Museum

18:00     Reception and Private View of exhibition on Charles Jennens at Handel House Museum, curator Ruth Smith

Saturday 24 November, the Foundling Museum

9:15      Registration

10:00    Donald Burrows: The Hanoverians and the Maxwells: George I and II in London Society, and How this affected Handel

10:40    Rashid-Sascha Pegah: London Insights

11:20    Coffee

11:50    Konstanze Musketa: Between the Courts: Handel’s First Appointment as Organist at the Halle ‘Schloss- und Domkirche’

12:30    John Roberts: The Queen’s Anthem and the Emperor’s Madrigal

13:10    Buffet lunch

14:30    Helen Green: Musical Patronage at the Hanover Court during the early Eighteenth Century

15:10    William Summers: Music and Royal Power Struggles, 1716-1721

15:30    Graydon Beeks: Handel at Cannons: Music for a Private Court

16:10    Tea

16:40    Terence Best: Riccardo primo: An Opera for a Royal Occasion

17:20    Liam Gorry: A Golden Throne on One Side: Handel’s Representation of Throne Rooms in his Operas for London

18:30    Dinner at La Strada, Brunswick Centre

Sunday 25 November, The Foundling Museum

10:00    Graham Cummings: Handel and Operatic Rivalry in the London Season 1733/34

10:40    Matthew Gardner: Sourcing Singers for English Oratorio: Handel and his Contemporaries

11:20    Coffee

11:50    David Hunter: In the Court of Public Opinion: Handel, Choice, and the Finite Audience

12:30    Annette Landgraf: Handel amongst the Nobility in German bellettristic literature

13:10    Buffet lunch

15:00    An Arcadian Conversazione: Handel in Rome: A concert given by recent graduates of British conservatoires, organised by Laurence Cummings and David Vickers

For enquiries and admission information please contact handel@foundlingmuseum.org.uk