Unlike other contemporaries, the musical appreciation between Gottlieb Muffat and George Frideric Handel was mutual; Muffat admired Handel, and Handel valued Muffat's work.
Composer Biography
Despite their lifetimes overlapping for almost 70 years, the composers Gottlieb Muffat and George Frideric Handel never met in person.
Composer Biography
Gottlieb Muffat, the composer, had a family life with a spouse and at least one son, while George Frideric Handel remained a lifelong bachelor with expensive hobbies.
Composition History
George Frideric Handel used Gottlieb Muffat's Componimenti musicali as a source for his own compositions, adapting five pieces from it into works like the Ode for St Cecilia's Day.
Interpretation
Gottlieb Muffat's arrangements of Handel's Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin were more considerate, leaving many parameters untouched, unlike Handel's adaptations of Muffat's work.
Performer Biography
Flóra Fábri, the performer, considers her pedagogical work at universities, artistic experience in early music, and experimental projects equally important and mutually enriching.
Composer Biography
George Frideric Handel, the composer, was known as an unapproachable world celebrity, with many contemporaries failing to get in touch with him.
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