Händel, Courantes, Gigues, Sarabanden

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  URTEXT
  Courantes, Gigues, Sarabanden and other works
  from Georg Friedrich Händel
  with critical report

  Size DIN A4, spiral ring binding

  Georg Friedrich Händel was born in Halle on February 23, 1685, and received his first musical instruction from F.W. Zachow. In 1702 he studied jurisprudence in Halle, but a year later he turned to music. In 1703 he was already a violinist, "Maestro al Cembalo" and conductor of the Hamburg Opera House, where his first opera "Almira" was created in 1705. In 1707- 09 he traveled to Italy, where the operas "Rodrigo" and "Agrippina" were performed. With his virtuosity, he fell to the organ and the harpsichord, and thus came into contact with important musicians in the country, such as Scarlatti and Corelli.

  After a short intermezzo at the court of George of Hanover (later English king and founder of the House of Windsor), he settled down in London after the success of his opera "Rinaldo" There he was commissioned in 1719 to found the Royal Academy of Music, for which he wrote a total of 14 operas between 1720 and 1728, which made him famous throughout Europe.

  From 1740 he devoted himself to the composition of oratorios, including "The Messiah" and the well-known "Halleluja". In 1752 he became blind during his work on his oratorio "Jephta," and in April 1759 Händel died in London, where he was buried in the Westminster Abbey next to the English kings.

  Handel wrote 40 operas, 32 oratorios, 110 cantatas, more than 20 concerti, 39 orchestral works, and the smaller suites for the piano, which bear the numbers 426 to 455 in the HWV Handel catalog. The suites are located i.d.R. The following sentences: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue.
  
  The copies from the "Staatsbibliothek Berlin", Preußischer Kulturbesitz, served as the basis for this edition.

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