Music Of The Great Composers --

Georg Friedrich Handel-Part 9 The title of the new opera was Agrippina, and its first performance, in 1708, caused great enthusiasm, so that the audience burst out in shouts of Viva il caro Sassone! (Long live the dear Saxon!) One of the songs, Vaghe fonti, presents in its orchestral accompaniment the first instance of Handel's use of the pizzicato and mutes. In Rome Handel was a guest of the Arcadians, a society which cultivated every kind of..