{"id":4544,"date":"2016-04-09T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T01:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2016-04-09T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T01:03:33","slug":"handel-on-purcell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"Handel on Purcell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An account by R. L. Stevens (1775):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Handel was blind, and attending a performance of the Oratorio <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Jephtha<\/span>, Mr [William] Savage, my master, who sat next to him said, &#8220;This movement, sir, reminds of me of some of old Purcell&#8217;s music.&#8221; &#8220;G got te teffel&#8221;, said Handel, &#8220;if Purcell had lived, he would have composed better music than this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> Cited in: Dean, Winton (1995) &#8220;George Friederic Handel&#8221;, <i>The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians<\/i><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">. London: Macmillan, vol. 8, p.104.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An account by R. L. Stevens (1775): When Handel was blind, and attending a performance of the Oratorio Jephtha, Mr [William] Savage, my master, who sat next to him said, &#8220;This movement, sir, reminds of me of some of old Purcell&#8217;s music.&#8221; &#8220;G got te teffel&#8221;, said Handel, &#8220;if Purcell had lived, he would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[583,962],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers","tag-handel","tag-purcell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4545,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}