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The Water Music (German: Wassermusik) is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I 's request for a concert on the River Thames .
George Frideric Handel's Water Music: 16. Sarabande (Suite No. 3 in G, HWV 350: I. Sarabande) performed by the Marine Chamber Orchestra of the United States Marine Band on January 29, 2017 in the Schlesinger Concert Hall, Alexandria, VA. Conducted by Major Michelle Rakers. Composition date: 17 July 1717: Performance date: 29 January 2017: Source
This set of sound files is the entire Water Music Suite in D Major by George Frideric Handel. It is a good quality set, and it also has one very famous movement, II. Alla Hornpipe. This sound file appears in Water Music (Handel). Nominate and support. X clamation point 04:06, 7 January 2009 (UTC) Please give the details of the recording.
Handel's Water Music, although it was composed more than thirty years earlier, is often paired with the Music for the Royal Fireworks as both were written for outdoor performance. Older recordings tend to use arrangements of Handel's score for the modern orchestra, for example, the arrangements by Hamilton Harty (1923) and Leopold Stokowski.
Stephen Anthony Simon (May 3, 1937 – January 20, 2013) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger. He was a noted proponent of the music of George Frederic Handel, serving as music director of the Handel Society of New York and recording several of Handel's operas and oratorios for the RCA label.
"The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" is one of two instrumental movements [1] in Solomon, an oratorio by George Frideric Handel written in May and June 1748 and premiered on 17 March 1749. Scored for two oboes, strings and continuo, [ 2 ] it is the sinfonia which opens Act III, the only act in which Sheba appears, [ 3 ] and it depicts the ...
The prelude did not appear in the first edition published by John Walsh [2] and was taken from Handel's keyboard suite HWV 428. HWV 561 is another version of the prelude. [citation needed] 2 Allemande: 108 ii, 81 iv/5, 29 3 Courante: 109 ii, 82 iv/5, 30 4 Sarabande: 110 ii, 82 iv/5, 31
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