Baerenreiter Verlag

Miscellaneous Suites and Pieces. Second Part.

Composer: Georg Friedrich Handel,
Editors: Terence Best
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Piano

The Suites nos 1 and 2 may well be Handel's earliest surviving keyboard works; we may reasonably assume that they were written in his boyhood in Halle. The early period which ended with his departure from Hamburg for Italy in 1706 possibly covers nos 1-18. Handel earned his living in Hamburg partly by giving harpsichord lessons, and may have written some or all of those pieces for his pupils.

The present volume contains all Handel's harpsichord works which survive only in contemporary manuscript copies. In the absence of autographs there is little direct evidence about dates of composition. The pieces are arranged in what the editor believes is their approximate chronological order: there being no historical evidence the order has been determined on stylistic comparison.

Contents:

• Suite C-dur HWV 443
• Partita G-dur HWV 450
• Prelude d-moll HWV 563
• Prelude e Capriccio G-dur HWV 571
• Ouverture (Ouverture, Entree, Chaconne) g-moll HWV 453
• Preludio d-moll HWV 564
• Allegro C-dur HWV472
• Chaconne F-dur (fur zweimanualiges Cembalo) HWV 485
• Suite d-moll HWV 448
• Suite d-moll HWV 449
• Sonatina d-moll HWV 581
• Allemande a-moll HWV 478
• Fuga F-dur HWV 611
• Chaconne g-moll HWV 486
• Partita c-moll HWV 444
• Suite c-moll HWV 445
• Prelude-Allegro a-moll HWV 576
• Air g-moll HWV 467
• Toccata g-moll HWV 586
• Sonatina g-moll 583
• Sonata g-moll HWV 580
• Concerto G-dur HWV 487
• Air B-dur HWV 471
• Preludium F-dur HWV 567
• Preludium f-moll HWV 568
• Prelude g-moll HWV 573
• Prelude E-dur HWV 566
• Air g-moll (fur zweimanualiges Cembalo) HWV 466
• Air B-dur (fur zweimanualiges Cembalo) HWV 470
• Impertinence g-moll HWV 494
• Air und zwei Doubles F-dur HWV 465
• Allegro d-moll HWV 475
• Courante h-moll HWV 489
• Appendix:
  • Air c-moll HWV 458
  • Sonatina a-moll HWV 584
  • Aria c-moll HWV459 459