Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks

George Frideric Händel (1685-1759): Música Acuática y Música para los Reales Fuegos Artificiales. Partitura general de bolsillo.

Two of the most popular Baroque orchestral works in the repertoire appear here in a single volume. Full of charm and tremendous variety, Water Music features a colorful blend of concerto and dance suite and represents the first great peak in Handel's orchestral music. This suite is expansive, unflaggingly inspired outdoor music, written for a large orchestra manipulated with sovereign skill. Music for the Royal Fireworks -composed to acknowledge the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle- is specially noted for its brilliant overture and combination of tunefulness and grandeur. For a public rehearsal of this celebratory music, a crowd of some 12,000 stopped all trafile on London Bridge, come to witness the composer of the day -a great and popular favorite of his time.
Reproduced here from an authoritative early edition, both works appear with bar-numbered movements. Ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall, this affordable, high-quality, conveniently sized volume will be the edition of choice for music students and music lovers alike.
Dover (1999) unabridged republication of the Deutsche Handelgesellschaft edition.

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- Water Music (ca. 1717)
- Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749)