John Hawkins

Among this musicographer and music historians friends were Georg Frideric Handel and John Stanley. As a lawyer in London he proved helpful among the musical and literary echelon. Besides composing on music background Hawkins also possessed a significant assortment of music and treatises on music. “AN OVER-ALL Background of the Research and Practice of Music” was quite significant but sadly brought him right into a rivalry with Charles Burney. Hawkins’ background contains essential data regarding the musical culture of London during his life but also pressured the enhancements of 16th and 17th hundred years composers. John Hawkins also had written a lifestyle of Samuel Johnson. Inside the purview of a few of his wroks, Hawkins dealt with the precise corpus of books by an idividual composer in its articles and context, such as for example “THE OVERALL Background and Peculiar Personality of the Functions of Arcangelo Corelli.”