When news reached London in the summer of 1743 that a King George II-led army had defeated the French at the Battle of Dettingen, Handel jumped into action and commenced work on a grand Te Deum.
In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of publications in the area of women’s studies. Not only are medieval liturgical studies not an exception, but deserve to be counted among the pioneers of the genre.
Johann Friedrich Fasch is one of the most intriguing court musicians and composers of early 18th-century Germany. He trained at Leipzig under Bach’s predecessor Kuhnau, worked across western and central Germany, and eventually settled at the court of Anhalt-Zerbst in Lower Saxony.
