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Handel at Cannons
George Frideric Handel was the house composer at Cannons from August 1717 until February 1719.〔Dean, W. & J.M. Knapp (1995) Handel's operas 1704–1726, p. 166.〕 The ''Chandos Anthems'' and other important works by Handel were conceived, written or first performed at Cannons.
Cannons was a large house in Middlesex, the seat of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos who was a patron of Handel. The duke, a flute player, had a private orchestra, consisting of 24 instrumentalists.〔Handel. A Celebration of his Life and Times 1685–1759, p. 99-100, 105–109. National Portrait Gallery London (1985). Some musicians doubled as a waiting page or a valet.〕 Johann Christoph Pepusch was the Master of Music at Cannons from 1716 and he saw the size of the musical establishment at first expand and then decline in the 1720s in response to Brydges' losses in the South Sea Bubble, a financial crash which took place in 1720.〔''The Cambridge Companion to Handel'', Donald Burrows〕
==Handel's move to Cannons==
Handel settled in England in 1712, but appears not to have maintained his own household in London until 1723.〔The composer's home from 1723 is preserved as the Handel House Museum〕 He attracted the patronage of noblemen such as Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and he was based at Burlington House before becoming Cannons' resident composer from 1717 to 1718. It has been suggested that the move to Cannons was related to the fact that in 1717 there was reduced demand for his services in central London because operatic productions were experiencing a temporary downturn. At the end of Handel's stay at Cannons, the Duke and his friends helped him establish a new opera company in London, the so-called Royal Academy of Music.〔("during ... () residence at Cannons, a project was formed by the Nobility for erecting an academy at the Haymarket") Dean, W. & J.M. Knapp (1995) Handel's operas 1704–1726, p. 299.〕
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