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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 .
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.
Description: 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.
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ ˈ h æ n d əl / HAN-dəl; [a] baptised Georg Fried[e]rich Händel, [b] German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] ⓘ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) [3] [c] was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti.
List of incidental music by George Frideric Handel HWV Title Premiere Venue Notes 43 The Alchemist: 14 January 1710 Queen's Theatre, London Instrumental music for the revival of Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist. An arrangement, by an anonymous composer, of music from Handel's opera Rodrigo. 44 Comus: June 1745 Ludlow Castle, Shropshire
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.
Water Music is a 1717 composition by George Frideric Handel. Water Music may also refer to: Water Music (Telemann) (Hamburger Ebb und Fluth), a a1723 orchestral suite by Georg Philipp Telemann; Water Music, a 1952 performance piece by John Cage; Water Music, a 1982 novel by T. C. Boyle; Water Music, a 2003 photography book by Marjorie Ryerson
The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel, for solo keyboard (harpsichord), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred to as Suite de pièces Vol. 2 No. 4. It was first published in 1733. [citation needed]