ABSTRACT
King George III acceded to the throne in 1760, just one year after the death of Handel and two years before Johann Christian Bach (1735–82) arrived in London. Before and during his twenty years in England, the "London" Bach survived devastating military and political turmoil. He escaped the Seven Years' War by emigrating to Milan before it began and thence to London before it ended. From 1762 to 1782, Great Britain waged costly wars abroad with France and America, while, at home, pragmatic businessmen increasingly opposed the resultant disruption of trade and concomitant burdensome taxation.
