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The Handel House Museum is a museum in Mayfair, London dedicated to the life and works of the German-born baroque composer George Frideric Handel. The museum was opened in 2001 by the Handel House Trust as the result of an initiative of the well known musicologist Stanley Sadie of an idea born in 1959.
The house has been restored to look as it did during Handel's 36 year occupancy from 1723 to 1759. A typical early 18th century London terrace house, it comprises a basement, three main storeys and an attic, and Handel was the first occupant. The attic was later converted into a fourth full floor. The ground floor is a shop not associated with the Museum, and the upper floors are leased to a charity called the Handel House Trust, and have been open to the public since 8 November 2001.
The interiors have been restored to the somewhat Spartan style of the Georgian era, using mostly architectural elements from elsewhere, since, apart from the staircase, few of the original interior features survived.
The Handel House Collection Trust has assembled a collection of Handel memorabilia, including the Byrne Collection of several hundred items, which was acquired in 1998.
In 1998 the Handel House Collections Trust acquired the Byrne Collection, a large collection of several hundred objects connected with Handel. These include, correspondence of Handel, original manuscripts, a copy of one of the first biographies of Handel by John Mainwaring, with marginal comments by his friend and librettist Charles Jennens, early editions of operas and oratorios, prints, paintings, sculptures.
Around the same time the trust also bought two paintings of Jennens done by Thomas Hudson and the opera singer Faustina Bordoni done by Bartolomeo Nazari.
During 2009, to mark the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, the Handel House Museum mounted a series of special exhibitions and events, entitled Handel Reveal'd. The permanent collection wass supplemented by a large number of paintings and prints connected with the life and work of Handel on loan from other collections in Britain. In addition a rarely seen life mask of Handel by Roubiliac from a private collection will be on display.
The Handel House Museum is a museum in Mayfair, London dedicated to the life and works of the German-born baroque composer George Frideric Handel. The museum was opened in 2001 by the Handel House Trust as the result of an initiative of the well known musicologist Stanley Sadie of an idea born in 1959.
The house has been restored to look as it did during Handel's 36 year occupancy from 1723 to 1759. A typical early 18th century London terrace house, it comprises a basement, three main storeys and an attic, and Handel was the first occupant. The attic was later converted into a fourth full floor. The ground floor is a shop not associated with the Museum, and the upper floors are leased to a charity called the Handel House Trust, and have been open to the public since 8 November 2001.
The interiors have been restored to the somewhat Spartan style of the Georgian era, using mostly architectural elements from elsewhere, since, apart from the staircase, few of the original interior features survived.
The Handel House Collection Trust has assembled a collection of Handel memorabilia, including the Byrne Collection of several hundred items, which was acquired in 1998.
In 1998 the Handel House Collections Trust acquired the Byrne Collection, a large collection of several hundred objects connected with Handel. These include, correspondence of Handel, original manuscripts, a copy of one of the first biographies of Handel by John Mainwaring, with marginal comments by his friend and librettist Charles Jennens, early editions of operas and oratorios, prints, paintings, sculptures.
Around the same time the trust also bought two paintings of Jennens done by Thomas Hudson and the opera singer Faustina Bordoni done by Bartolomeo Nazari.
During 2009, to mark the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, the Handel House Museum mounted a series of special exhibitions and events, entitled Handel Reveal'd. The permanent collection wass supplemented by a large number of paintings and prints connected with the life and work of Handel on loan from other collections in Britain. In addition a rarely seen life mask of Handel by Roubiliac from a private collection will be on display.
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