1715

 

 

Jan 8

            The Lord Bishop of Glocester will be consecrated at Lambeth, to Morrow Sevennight.  Extraordinary Preparations are making for the Solemnity on the Thanksgiving Day; and we are inform’d that a Throne will be erected in the Choir for His Majesty, who is expected there with their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.  Mr. Hendel, a Native of Hannover, who set the Anthem that was sung at St. Paul’s, on Account of the Peace with France, is now composing an Anthem to be set to Musick, and to be performed on the above-mentioned Occasion.[1]

 

 

 

[payments to “Georg Friedrich Hendell” in the Hanover Chamber Accounts]

 

Midsummer 1712                     500 Thaler, for six months’ salary, paid in arrears in 1715[2]

 

 



[1] The Weekly Journal With Fresh Advices Foreign and Domestick, Saturday 8 January 171[5], 331-32.

[2] Donald Burrows, “Handel and Hanover,” in Bach, Handel, Scarlatti Tercentenary Essays, ed. Peter Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 35-60: 40; trans. from German.