‘Handel After Handel’: The Making, Lasting Fame and Influence of Handel and the Handelian Figure

Abstract

, as an indicator of the nationalist atmosphere of the time, then continued with statistics on the appearance of editions of the two composers' works and on concerts that included their music, and finally considered new twentieth-century compositions that had been inspired by it. While the interest in both composers in these respects reached a high point in the 1920s, the interest in Scarlatti far exceeded that in Soler. Soler proved none the less to have been a source of inspiration to the new generations of the twentieth century.