Keyboard Works Volume 3

Handel, George Frideric

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Handel Keyboard Works Volume 3
Miscellaneous Suites & Pieces. First Part

Throughout his life Handel was famous as a brilliant performer on keyboard instruments, and he began composing for them in his youth: his early training under Zachow included the study of the most important 17th-century German composers for the keyboard, and their influence can be seen in the harpsichord music which he had written by the time he left Hamburg for Italy in 1706. He seems to have taken it up again only after he settled in England in 1712, and during the next few years he wrote a large number of harpsichord works, with a peak about 1717, when he was becoming involved with the music at Cannons.

Apparently Handel was in no hurry to publish these compositions, and manuscript copies were made for friends and patrons. The primary source for our text is the third impression of the Cluer edition. As well as the Walsh, le Cène and Leclerc editions there are important manuscript sources, including some autographs, which give much additional information concerning the text.

The compositions in this volume cover a wide span of Handel’s creative life, from his Hamburg years until about 1750 , but most of them were written before 1720, the date when he seems virtually to have given up composing for the harpsichord except for special commissions such as the two Suites for the Princess Louisa (nos 6 and 7, c. 1739). There are Autograph MSS of all but eight pieces (2–5, 19–22), supplemented in some cases by contemporary copies, and twelve of them appeared in contemporary printed editions; nos 9–12, 15 and 16 are here printed for the first time.

The edition, based on the Urtext of the “Halle Handel Edition”, has been edited by the internationally-renowned Handel scholar Terence Best. The music text in each volume, which also takes into consideration alternative versions of individual pieces, is accompanied by a detailed foreword on the history of the compositions, transmission and performance practice.

- Urtext based on the “Halle Handel Edition”

- Comprehensive edition of Handel’s keyboard works Volumes I-IV (BA 4221-4224)

- Detailed introductory text with notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng)

- Based on the latest Handel research findings

Edition Number: BA4222

EAN: 9790006446223

Publisher: Baerenreiter Germany

1. Six Fugues or Voluntarys for the Organ or Harpsichord Op.3: G Minor HWV 605 / G Major HWV 606 / B-flat Major HWV 607 / B Minor HWV 608 / A Minor HWV 609 / C Minor HWV 610 [Handel, George Frideric]
2. Sonata pur le Claves in C Major HWV 577 [Handel, George Frideric]
3. Capriccio F Major HWV 481 [Handel, George Frideric]
4. Preludio ed Allegro G Minor HWV 574 [Handel, George Frideric]
5. Fantasy C Major HWV 490 [Handel, George Frideric]
6. Suite D Minor HWV 447 [Handel, George Frideric]
7. Suite G Minor HWV 452 [Handel, George Frideric]
8. Capriccio G Minor HWV 483 [Handel, George Frideric]
9. Allemande A Major HWV 477 [Handel, George Frideric]
10. Allemande F Major HWV 476 [Handel, George Frideric]
11. Gigue F Major HWV 492 [Handel, George Frideric]
12. Prélude D Minor HWV 562 [Handel, George Frideric]
13. Sonatina (Fugue) G Major HWV 582 [Handel, George Frideric]
14. Sonatina B-flat Major HWV 585 15. Prélude F-sharp Minor HWV 570 [Handel, George Frideric]
16. Air A Major HWV 468 [Handel, George Frideric]
17. Sonata con Trio e Gavotta C Major (for a musical clock) HWV 578 [Handel, George Frideric]
18. Prélude A Minor HWV 575 [Handel, George Frideric]
19. Lesson A Minor HWV 496 [Handel, George Frideric]
20. Partita A Major HWV 454 [Handel, George Frideric]
21. Prélude G Minor HWV 572 [Handel, George Frideric]
22. Sonata for two-manual Harpsichord G Major HWV 579 [Handel, George Frideric]