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| Composer : | Haendel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Flute and Harp | ||||
| Style : | Baroque | ||||
| Key : | E major | ||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
| Added by magataganm, 02 May 2018 Most music lovers have encountered Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759) through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's "Hallelujah" chorus. And many of them know and love that oratorio on Christ's life, death, and resurrection, as well as a few other greatest hits like the orchestral Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music, and perhaps Judas Maccabeus or one of the other English oratorios. Yet his operas, for which he was widely known in his own time, are the province mainly of specialists in Baroque music, and the events of his life, even though they reflected some of the most important musical issues of the day, have never become as familiar as the careers of Bach or Mozart. Perhaps the single word that best describes his life and music is "cosmopolitan": he was a German composer, trained in Italy, who spent most of his life in England. If there is an archetypal Handel keyboard suite, it is the E major. Like most of the other suites, it is in four movements. And, like most of the other suites, those four movements are predominantly stylized dance movements preceded by a prelude. And, like most of the suites, it is a beautiful and beguiling work fully at the level of Bach's best keyboard suites. Unlike Handel's other suites, this work (published by the composer himself, in London, in 1720) is frequently performed. Or, more specifically, its last movement is still frequently performed: as lovely as the graceful opening prelude, the fine-boned Andantino Allemande, and the porcelain-skinned Allegro Courante, the closing Air con variazioni is what guarantees the Suite in E major immortality. Obliquely based on the English folk song "Four Days Drunk," but far better known by its title The Harmonious Blacksmith, the air and five variations is quintessential Handel: sturdy and supple, elegant and powerful, lyrical but virtuosic. It also features the only movement in Handel with the compound time signature 24/16 against common time. Source: AllMusic (https://www.allmusic.com/composition/suite-for-keyboar d-suite-de-piece-vol1-no5-in-e-major-the-harmonious-bla cksmith-hwv-430-mc0002403109). Although originally written for Keyboard, I created this Arrangement of the Suite in E Major (HWV 430 No. 5) for Flute & Concert (Pedal) Harp. Sheet central : | Suite de pièce en Mi majeur, Vol 1 No 5 (11 sheet music) | | |||
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