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The Guide to Current Handel Research
(A-Z
by surname of researcher)
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John Andrews
Queen's College, Cambridge University, UK
The social, political, literary and historical context of Handel's
Semele
(1744) and other secular oratorios, including reference to Handel's English
contemporaries and the theatre music of London from 1700-1750.
Suzanne Aspden
Cambridge University (Research Fellow, Robinson
College), UK
DPhil. "Opera and Nationalism in mid-Eighteenth-Century
Britain" (Oxford, 1999). Forthcoming publications: "'Fam'd Handel breathing,
though transform'd to stone': the composer as monument", JAMS (vol. 55/1); "Ariadne's
Clew: Politics, Allegory, and Opera in London (1734)" (awaiting acceptance).
Work in progress: Book on opera and nationalism in 18th-century Britain, which
will include material on Handel. Articles on "Performance and Identity on
London's Operatic Stage: Faustina Bordoni vs. Francesca Cuzzoni"; and companion
article on Senesino and satire.
Amanda Babington
University of Manchester, UK
Currently working on a PhD exploring the creative process of Handel's
Messiah
. Also working on an edition of Handel's
Dettingen Anthem
and
Dettingen Te Deum
for the HHA.
Corbett Bazler
Columbia University, New York, USA
Currently working on a dissertation entitled "The Comedies of Opera Seria:
Handel's Post-Academy Operas," which considers quasi-comic moments in Handel's
operas of the 1730s and early 1740s and their relationship to other forms of
theatrical entertainment at the time. The dissertation will focus primarily on
the late operatic works, including
Giustino
,
Berenice
,
Serse
,
Imeneo
,
Deidamia
, and the English-language
Semele
.
Graydon Beeks
Pomona College, California, USA
Editing Cannons anthems for Novello,
editing
Chandos Te Deum
for the HHA (Hallische H?ndel-Ausgabe).
Eddy Benimedourene
The Open University, UK (but resident in Belgium)
Current research: Handel's borrowings and self-quotations;
Cataloguing of borrowings and self-quotations, and studies on terminology and
various works (
Athalia
,
Il Trionfo
...
and other works)
Terence Best
Brentwood, UK
Joint Chief General Editor, Hallische H?ndel Ausgabe (HHA).
HHA edition of
Deidamia
just published. New revised HHA edition of Organ
Concertos Opus 4, and a Practical edition of Complete Violin Sonatas due by the
end of 2001. Currently re-editing
Serse
for the HHA. New B?renreiter
edition of Oboe Concerto HWV 287 in preparation (this concerto was considered a
spurious attribution, but in recent years research has suggested that it is an
authentic early Flute concerto adapted for oboe by a later arranger).
Lorenzo & Giuseppina La Face Bianconi
University of Bologna, Italy
Editing and investigating Handel's Italian librettos (pasticcios included)
and their original sources. Volume 1 (1707-25) of their project "I libretti
italiani di Georg Friedrich Handel e le loro fonti" was published in 1992 by Leo
S. Olschki (Florence). Volume 2 (1726-33) is due to be published in 2003/04 by
the same publisher. The Bianconis, who are teachers of Musical Dramaturgy and
Music History at the Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo of the University of
Bologna, are currently preparing Volume 3 (1734-41). Together with Alan Curtis,
they are on the programme committee of the conference "Georg Friedrich Handel e
il dramma per musica", to be held in Siena,
Accademia Musicale Chigiana
, on 7-9 November 2002. The proceedings will be
published as part of the annual of the Accademia, "Chigiana" (Olschki,
Florence).
Donald Burrows
The Open University, UK
PhD was on Handel and the Chapel Royal (Open University,
1981), and continues to research this subject and plans to publish book (not
likely to be before 2004). Revised edition of his Master Musicians volume on
Handel in preparation. Forthcoming editions of
Imeneo
(HHA), Wedding
anthem "This is the day" (Novello), and 9 German Arias (Breitkopf). Future plans
include editions of
Ariodante
(HHA) and
Samson
(Novello).
Website
:
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/music/dburrows.htm
Xavier Cervantes
University of Toulouse, France
PhD dissertation on "'The Universal Entertainment of the Polite Part of the
World': Italian Opera and Its Reception in England, 1705-44" (1995,
c.
800 p.). Several articles published in
H?ndel-Handbuch, G?ttinger
H?ndel-Beitr?ge
,
Early Music
, and elsewhere.
Current research
: Italian-English cultural and artistic interactions in
the 18th century: opera, music, painting, aesthetics.
Ilias Chrissochoidis
Stanford University, California, USA
Expertise
: British reception of Handel and his Oratorios, 1732-1784
Dissertation
: "Early Reception of Handel's Oratorios, 1732-1784:
Narrative - Studies - Documents" (PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 2004),
xiii
+ 1626 pp.; available through UMI (
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/search
)
Forthcoming articles
:
- "
Advice to Mr. Handel
: Mapping a Document in Time and
Circumstance"
- "Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel's
Esther
into an
English Oratorio, 1732"
- "The Doomed Challenger: John Brown's Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763"
- "Quantifying Genius: Justice Balance's "hit parade" of Composers, 1776"
Website
:
http://www.stanford.edu/~ichriss/
Hans Dieter Clausen
Hamburg, Germany
PhD on Handel's 'Conducting' Scores.
Editing
Floridante
for the HHA. Researching Handel's compositional
process.
Graham Cummings
Huddersfield University, UK
University
Organist and Principal Lecturer in the Department of Music, University Of
Huddersfield. He has published on Handel and Opera in
Music & Letters
,
Early Music
, and the
H
?
ndel Jahrbuch
. He is currently editing the opera
Poro, R
?
dell? Indie
for the
Hallische H
?
ndel
Ausgabe
,
and has acted as music text consultant for performances of this opera at the
festivals in Halle (1998), G
?
ttingen (2006), and the London Handel Festival (2007).
Contact:
g.h.cummings@hud.ac.uk
Winton Dean
Godalming, UK
Current research:
Handel's Operas Volume 2: 1727-41
Pierre Degott
University of Metz, France
PhD recently published on rhetorical and thematic aspects of Handel's
oratorio librettos. ("Haendel et ses oratorios: des mots pour les notes." Paris
: L?Harmattan, 2001.) Various articles on the celebration of music in texts set by
Handel.
Current research: Translation of opera librettos; representation of opera in
fiction.
Mikhail Fikhtengoltz
State Institute of Arts Science, Moscow, Russia
Doctoral research on Handel?s operas of the 1730s and their genre traditions.
Matthew Gardner
Ruprecht-Karls-Universit?t, Heidelberg, Germany
Doctoral research on the social, political, religious and historical contexts
of Maurice Greene's theatrical works with reference to the careers and works of
Thomas Arne and Handel. Also the lives and works of their respective
librettists. Due for completion in 2006-7.
Philippe Gelinaud
Paris Sorbonne, France
MMus "Love and religious feelings in
Theodora
: an
oratorio by G.F. Handel". PhD thesis (due 2004-6): "
Faramondo
de G.F.
Handel sur un livret d'A. Zeno : ?tude des sources et confrontation au mod?le
m?tastasien" ("
G.F. Handel's Faramondo: its libretto,
sources, and Metastasian model").
Editing
Faramondo
for the HHA.
Todd Gilman
Yale University, USA
Ph.D. thesis
The Theory and Practice of English
Opera and Related Genres in London, 1675-1745: John Gay, George Frideric
Handel, Their Predecessors and Contemporaries
(University of Toronto,
1994), co-wrote entry on Thomas Augustine Arne in the
New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians
with Peter Holman, and is planning
various books related to Thomas Augustine Arne, including
Our English
Amphion: The Theater Career of Thomas Augustine Arne, 1732-78.
He
co-edited John Parkinson's book manuscript
Thomas Arne: Master of a Scurvy Profession
with Stephen Parkinson. Currently writing a book
titled
Handel and London Theater
, and his article "
Handel's
Hercules
and its Semiosis" was published in
The Musical
Quarterly
, Vol. 81.3 (1997), pp. 449-81.
William Gudger
Charleston College, South Carolina, USA
Current project is a long-overdue review of editions of
the Eight Great Suites. Also plans to revise some papers read long ago,
including material about borrowings in
Samson
and
Messiah
.
Continuing research on the organ concertos (e.g. forthcoming HHA edition of Opus
4, revised by Terence Best). Plans a collaboration with a Charleston music
scholar about the "coronation organ" used by Handel supposedly sent by George II
to St. Philip's Church, Charleston.
Ellen Harris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Handel's cantatas (history, analysis and context): an
edition of 16 alto cantatas has just appeared from Oxford; forthcoming book on
the cantatas to be published by Harvard University Press. Ellen has also been
carrying out archival research on Handel's "legatees", including some people in
Handel's will who were otherwise unknown; an article was published in the 2000
Handel-Jahrbuch
on James Hunter; a smaller piece this year in the
American Handel Society Newsletter on Mrs. Donellan and Mrs. Mayne. Ellen is
also carrying out research on Handel's bank accounts, and has discovered a new
stock account for Handel in the Bank of England. The preliminary findings were
reported at the American Handel Society meetings last May.
Brian Hick
Hastings, UK
DPhil. Editor of
The Organ
. Currently leading re-evaluation of
Handel and The Organ
; Handel's improvisations and public
performances as an organ soloist; use of the organ as a continuo
instrument; organ design.
Anthony Hicks
London, UK
Editing
La Resurrezione
for the HHA, and working on
a complete reconstruction of
Comus
.
David Hunter
The University of Texas (Austin), USA
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989,
on opera and song books published in England 1703-1726. Current research:
Aspects of Handel's life as portrayed by his biographers, including the
audiences for his performances in London and Dublin, the alleged opposition to
his operas and oratorios, his size, eating habits and health, his alleged poor
relations with publishers, the alleged attendance of Jews in large numbers at
Judas Maccabaeus
, and other such myths. In short, I am assessing the
accuracy of claims concerning Handel's friends and enemies.
David Ross Hurley
Pittsburgh State University,
Kansas, USA
PhD recently published as
Handel's
Muse: Patterns of Creation in his Oratorios and Musical Dramas, 1743-1751
(Oxford University Press). Currently editing
Hercules
for the HHA and
Solomon
for Novello. Preparing a paper on compositional revisions to
Theodora
, and researching non-Handelian operatic careers of Handel's
oratorio singers during the Middlesex period and beyond. He is also examining
Handel's oratorio arias: their form, style, and dramatic characteristics.
Andrew V. Jones
Cambridge University (Selwyn College), UK
Recent publications: critical edition
of
Rodelinda
for the Hallische H?ndel-Ausgabe (2002);
?Staging a Handel Opera?,
Early Music
, xxiv/2 (May, 2006); ?Handel?s
Amore uccellatore
cantata?, H?ndel-Jahrbuch, 52 (2006); ?The Composer as
Dramatist: Handel?s Contribution to the Libretto of
Rodelinda?
,
Music
and Letters
, 88 (2007). Preparation of a biennial production of a Handel
opera for the Cambridge Handel Opera Group (2007:
Imeneo
). Current
research: preparation of a critical edition of the continuo cantatas for the HHA.
Robert Ketterer
University of Iowa, USA
PhD in Classics, University of Michigan. Current research
on early operas about Scipio Africanus the Elder, by Minato/ Cavalli, Zeno,
Piovene, and Rolli/Handel's
Scipione.
Minji Kim
North Andover
, Massachussetts, USA
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2005. Dissertation: "Handel's
Israel in
Egypt:
A Three-Anthem Oratorio. An Analytical and Interpretive Study of the
Original 1739 Version." Currently revising the dissertation for publication.
Richard King
University of Maryland, USA
Editing
Alessandro
for the HHA. Cataloging the Schoelcher Collection
at the Bibloth
?
que Nationale, Paris.
Sebastian Knopp
Hamburg University, Germany
Forthcoming M.A. Thesis "Besetzung und Ausf?hrung des
Generalbasses in den
Concerti grossi H?ndels"
Annette Landgraf
University of Halle / Hallische
H?ndel Ausgabe Redaktion, Germany
The reception history of
Israel in
Egypt
. Currently editing
Esther
(1732 version) and the Funeral Anthem
"The Ways of Zion do Mourn" for the HHA. Plans to edit
Teseo
for the HHA.
David Lasocki
Indiana University, USA
Currently writing book
Woodwind Instruments in Britain,
1660-1740: Social History, Repertoire, and Performance Practice
. This will
include two chapters on Handel's woodwind music: the instrumental music, and his
use of woodwinds in his vocal music.
Lowell Lindgren
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
In the autumn of 2001, Lowell Lindgren has three items in
press: Nicola Haym, COMPLETE SONATAS, 2 volumes, A-R Editions; "An Intellectual
Castrato [Gaetano Berenstadt] at the End of the Medicean Era," to be published
in a Florentine collection, Olschki; and "Oratorios Sung in Italian at London,
1734-82," to be published in an oratorio collection, Olschki.
Nathan Link
Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, USA
Completed Ph. D. Dissertation, "Story and Representation in Handel?s
Operas," which explores seven of Handel's operas from the perspectives of both
traditional "dramatic" representation (i.e., mimesis), and "para-dramatic"
expression (such as, for example, the orchestra's role in imparting information
to the audience, or the meaning of adherence to or departure from opera seria
conventions).
Contact:
nathan.link@centre.edu
Nicholas Lockey
Princeton University (Graduate Fellow), USA
MA Thesis "The Instrumental Variation Sets of Antonio Vivaldi: Old Forms in
New Genres" (University of Victoria, Canada, 2004, ix, 155, app.) provides a
catalogue and close examination of large-scale structural issues in variation
sets by Vivaldi, Corelli, Rameau, and Handel. A book and several related
articles are in progress. Current research continues to expand upon the issues
raised in my thesis and examine additional repertoire from the 18th-20th
centuries.
Tom McGeary
Champaign, Illinois, USA
Writing a book on opera, politics,
and satire in the age of Handel, Walpole, and Pope. Studying the cultural,
social, and political context of Italian opera in Britain, and out archival
research on opera and opera patronage.
Michael Marissen
Swarthmore College, USA
Bach scholar turning also to Handel research. Working on a short book for
scholars and general readers about
Messiah
and theological anti-Judaism,
entitled "Handel's Messiah and Christian Triumphalism."
Hans Joachim Marx
Hamburg University, Germany
General Editor of the
G?ttinger H?ndel Beitr
?
ge
(published
every 2 years). Author of "G. F. H?ndel" entry in new MGG2 (due 2002).
Forthcoming publications include:
- the catalogue
G. F. H?ndel - Die
Kompositionen zweifelhafter Echtheit
(with
Steffen Voss
)
- "Lateinische und italienische Kirchenmusik" (Latin Church Music) for the HHA.
- A new source of Handel's '
Rodrigo
' (HWV 5)
(with
Steffen Voss
)
- "Unbekannte Kantaten von H?ndel, A. Scarlatti, Fago und Grillo in einer
neapolitanischen Handschrift von 1710" in Festschrift f?r Agostino Ziino.
(with
Steffen Voss
)
- "Eine H?ndel zugeschriebene Abschrift der verschollenen Bach-Kantate "Meine
Seele soll Gott loben (BWV 223)"
(with
Steffen Voss
)
- "A new source of Handel's solo cantatas", in: In honour of Howard Serwer (
forthcoming
).
(with
Steffen Voss
)
Raliza Nikolov
Hamburg University, Germany
Forthcoming PhD thesis "Sprache und Musik in H?ndels
Jephtha
"
Suzana Ograjensek
Cambridge University (Selwyn College), UK
The Royal Academy operas
from the arrival of Faustina Bordoni, 1726-1728.
Mary Ann Parker
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Recent publications include an article in Goldoni and the Musical Theatre and
a paper on Handel's early
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
. She is
the author of
G.F. Handel: a Research Guide
and the editor of the
Alfred Mann Festschrift
. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the
H?ndel-Jahrbuch, JAMS, The American Choral Review, MLA Notes, G?ttinger
H?ndel-Beitr?ge
, and
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
.
She recently completed the second edition of the Handel Research Guide.
Mark Risinger
New York., USA
.
PhD on Handel's use of borrowing (Harvard). Editing
Semele
for the HHA
Les Robarts
Powys (Wales), UK
MPhil (Open University, 1996) on aspects of the libretto
and music to
Theodora
PhD will be on 'The wordbooks to Handel's
Joseph and
his Brethren
and
Hercules
as commercial and literary artefacts' (Birmingham University ).
Martha Ronish
Albuquerque, New Mexico
, USA
Currently writing a Radio series on
Handel.
Ruth Smith
Cambridge, UK
Handel's English-language works for theatre performance
(oratorios and 'oratorios'); their librettists; their intellectual, religious,
political and cultural contexts.
Helen Smithson
The Open University, UK
MA dissertation was on the revival of Handel?s operas in Britain 1925-1985
(Open University, 2005). Currently registered for an MPhil/PhD at the Open
University, researching Handel?s singers from the season of 1734/35 to the
1750s.
Colin Timms
Birmingham University, UK
Editing
Theodora
for the HHA.
Marian Van Til
Youngstown, New York, USA
Independent researcher whose book
George Frideric Handel: A Music Lover's
Guide to His Life, His Faith & the Development of Messiah & His Other Oratorios
was published June 2007, aimed primarily at an audience of intelligent
non-specialist music lovers. Continuing work on a textual guide to a select
number of Handel's biblical oratorios.
David Vickers
The Open University, UK
MMus thesis on Mozart's tenor roles. Currently a PhD
scholar sponsored by the Gerald Coke Handel Foundation. Forthcoming PhD on
Partenope
,
Esther
(1732),
Deborah
and
Arianna
. Editing
Partenope
for the HHA.
Steffen Voss
Hamburg, Germany
(See
Hans Joachim Marx
.)
Forthcoming article in "H?ndel Borrowings aus Johann
Matthesons Oper
Porsenna
(1702)" to be published in
G?ttinger H?ndel
Beitr?ge
10.
Channan Willner
Music Division, New York Public Library
Dr. Willner explores Handel's phrase rhythm by culling plot archetypes common
to many Baroque instrumental pieces from the repertoire at large, by
differentiating rhythmically between the norms of the high, middle, and low
styles of the late Baroque, by finding norms of pacing and displacement in each
of the meters used at the time, and by interpreting the temporal relations of
the counterpoint between each composition's outer voices.
Dissertation
:
"Durational Pacing in Handel's Instrumental Works: The Nature of Temporality in
the Music of the High Baroque" (City University of New York Graduate Center,
2005).
website:
http://www.channanwillner.com
Eva Z
?
llner
Hamburg, Germany
MA (Hamburg): "Maurice Greene
(1696-1755) und die Tradition des englischen Oratoriums im 18. Jahrhundert". PhD
(Hamburg): "English oratorio after Handel: the London oratorio series and its
repertory (published by Tectum Verlag, 2001). Current projects: edition of
Thomas Arne's Judith for Musica Britannica (with Simon McVeigh); German
musicians active in London in the eighteenth century; Thomas A. Arne; J.C. Smith
and his collaboration with Handel.
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