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__NOTOC__ John Mainwaring (1724–1807) was an English theologian and the first biographer of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel in any language. He was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and became rector of the parish of Church Stretton, Shropshire, and, later professor of Divinity at Cambridge.〔Handel. A Celebration of his Life and Times, 1685-1759, p. 236.〕〔http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20091006115150〕 In 1760, one year after Handel was buried in Westminster Abbey he published anonymously a biography 'Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel'.〔Donald Burrows. Handel. Oxford University Press, 1994. Page 465. ISBN 978-0-19-816649-8〕 More than half of this biography is focused on the years before 1712, when Handel moved to London. Therefore it is supposed he received information from Handel himself on his early life〔Donald Burrows. Handel. 1994, p. 3.〕 or from John Christopher Smith. The ''Catalogue'' and the ''Observations'' are additions to the Memoirs by other authors. Charles Jennens owned a copy of the Memoirs, and provided the book with critical remarks on Semele and Benedetto Pamphili. In 1761 Johann Mattheson published an extended translation with sharp remarks on the biography of Mainwaring. Facsimile reprints of the "Memoirs" were published in 1964 and 1975. ==Bibliography== *(''Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel: To which is Added a Catalogue of His Works and Observations Upon Them'' ), R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Mainwaring」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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