Handel as Apollo. The Composer’s Apotheoses in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Art
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Handel was one of the few Baroque composers to enjoy the status of a ‘deified’ artist already in his lifetime. One still unresearched Handel-related topic is the history of the composer’s representations as the mythological Apollo, an ancient deity important in modern-age aesthetics and considered as particularly suitable for artist apotheoses. This article presents a survey and interpretation of examples from eighteenth-century literature and works of art in which Handel was directly compared to Apollo, or in which Apolline symbolism or the attributes of that god of music were employed to emphasise the composer’s status.
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Handel and Apollo, composer apotheosis, idolising an artist, artist as god, musicians’ apotheoses, deification in artReferences
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