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A Few Words About Handel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

William H. Cummings
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My “few words about Handel” will chiefly bear on the question of the spelling of his name.

When some 300 years ago our national dramatist wrote the query, “What's in a name?” he little dreamt of the amount of disputation which would arise in after-times respecting the rightful spelling of his own. Probably many of you have seen the capital little essays on the spelling of Shakespeare's name which have been recently published by Mr. Halliwell-Phillips. Curiously, in the case of Shakespeare the momentous question is about the two letters e and a—and in respect to our great composer it is whether he shall be called Handel or Hendel.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Musical Association , Volume 7 , 1880 , pp. 29 - 33
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1880

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