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  • Forgotten music composed by Handel to be heard for first time in 250 years

    05/07/2009 4:50:48 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 26 replies · 948+ views
    Telegraph ^ | Thursday, May 7, 2009 | unattributed
    The University of Portsmouth choir will play the funeral anthem which was originally commissioned by King George II to be played at the burial of his wife, Queen Caroline in 1737. After the performance Handel wanted to translate the 40-minute piece into Italian but the King refused and ordered the music be thrown away and never heard again. University music lecturer George Burrows will resurrect the long-lost version at Portsmouth's New Theatre Royal on Saturday after his father, Professor Donald Burrows, a leading expert on Handel, found the unfinished translation in a set of archives. Mr Burrows, who also leads...