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Handel's Bestiary

Hardcover • 2011 • English

Handel's Bestiary

By Donna Leon

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About the book

When Donna Leon, the acclaimed author of the best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice, she is listening to opera. Over the years, Leon has noticed that her favourite composer, George Frideric Handel, filled his operas with arias that make reference to animals; rich in symbolism, the perceived virtues and vices of the lion, bee, nightingale, snake, elephant, and tiger, among others, resonate in his works. In Handel's Bestiary, Leo...Show more

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ISBN

9780434021529

Publisher

William Heinemann Ltd

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Handel's Bestiary

Format

Hardcover

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