Donald Burrows
speaker
179 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Donald Burrows’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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His reputation in London in the first place was as an opera composer.
He also carried with him experience from the previous years.
Trained as an organist in Halle, he signed up for the University of Halle.
That only lasted a year.
He was off to Hamburg, to the Opera House.
He's then composing operas, playing from the harpsichord, leading the performances in Hamburg.
That's while the leading composer is away.
As soon as the composer comes back again, he's off to Italy.
There's no opera in Rome, but he does other things.
He does church music, and it's there he writes his first oratorios.
And he goes to Hanover, where he is appointed Master of the Music at the court, but on the condition he makes that he can go elsewhere because he wants to carry on writing operas.
There's no opera in Hanover.
And it's at that point that he then comes to London.
He has to go back to his job in Hanover.
But then he comes back to London again and the Elector of Hanover is in the next in line to the British throne.
Which presumably was to Handel's advantage.
He was a fast, intense worker.
What we have with the autograph is a finished setting of the complete text.
He started that on the 22nd of August, finished it on the 13th of September or whatever.
It so happens that the 22nd of August is also a Saturday this year.
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