BIBLIOGRAPHY
Friedrich Chrysander, G. F. Handel. 3 vols.,
1858-67, Leipzig.
(The name of Chrysander ought to be attached permanently to that of Handel, for his life was entirely devoted to him. It was he who founded in 1856, with Gervinus, the German Handel Society and who accomplished nearly the whole of the Complete Edition of the Works of Handel in one hundred volumes by himself alone. His biography is a monument of science and devotion comparable with Philipp Spitta's J. S. Bach and Otto Jahn's Mozart. Unfortunately the work remained unfinished: it stopped at the year 1740. Max Seiffert completed it.
Schoelcher, The Life of Handel. 1857.
(Schoelcher's works, anterior to those of Chrysander, are valuable on account of their collection of documents rather than that of the general laying out of the works. As we have seen, the priceless collection of these documents is housed at the Paris Conservatoire.)
Hermann Kretzschmar, Georg Friedrich Handel (published in the Sammlung musikalischer Vorträge by Paul Graf Waldersee).
Fritz Volbach, Georg-Friedrich Hændel (Collection: Harmonie. 1898, Berlin).
(These two last works are excellent little résumés of the life and works of Handel.)
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