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Keyboard Works for Solo Instrument

Keyboard Works for Solo Instrument

Handel, George Frideric

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Series: Dover Classical Piano Music

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ISBN10: 0486243389
ISBN13: 9780486243382
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Sep 1 1982
Pages: 174
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.41 Width: 9.37 Depth: 12.19
Language: English

The music historian Sir John Hawkings recorded that his friend Handel's keyboard improvisations stole on the ear in a slow and solemn progression; the harmony close wrought, and as full as could be possibly be expressed; the passage concatenated with stupendous art, the whole at the same time being perfectly intelligible, and carrying the appearance of great simplicity. Such fecund spontaneity generated the few published pieces Handel wrote specifically for the keyboard. The first set of suites appeared in 1720, perhaps composed and published for the instruction of Princess Anne, to whom Handel serves as music master. Other collections of harpsichord and clavichord work followed; all seem to have been preserved from Handel's freely inventive keyboard sessions. Here, for the first time in a popularly accessible edition, are 35 of his finest keyboard works for solo instruments, reproduced from the monumental Deutsche Händelgesellschaft edition, still the most complete.

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