Baerenreiter Verlag Keyboard Works, Volume 1 HWV 426-433 - Handel/Steglich/Best - Piano - Book

First Set of 1720. The Eight Great Suites. Revised Edition.

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

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 Cene and Leclerc editions there are important manuscript sources, including some autographs, which give much additional information concerning the text.

Contents:

• Preface
• Facsimiles
• Suite no. 1 in A major HWV 426
• Suite no. 2 in F major HWV 427
• Suite no. 3 in D minor HWV 428
• Suite no. 4 in E minor HWV 429
• Suite no. 5 in E major HWV 430
• Suite no. 6 in F-sharp minor HWV 431
• Suite no. 7 in G minor HWV 432
• Suite no. 8 in F minor HWV 433
• Appendix:
  • 1. Original Finale (Movement 5) from Suite no. 2: Allegro in F major HWV 427/[5]
  • 2. First Version of Original Finale from Suite no. 2: Prelude in F major HWV 488
  • 3. Preliminary Form of Suite no. 3, Movement 1: Prelude in D minor HWV 565
  • 4. Variant of Suite no. 3, Movement 5
  • 5. First Version of Suite no. 3, Movement 6: Lesson in D minor HWV 495 a
  • 6. Early Version of Suite no. 3, Movement 6
  • 7. Variant of Suite no. 3, Movement 6: Lesson in D minor HWV 495 b
  • 8. Original Version of Suite no. 4, Movement 2
  • 9. Original Version of Suite no. 4, Movement 4, mm. 41-48
  • 10. Early Version of Suite no. 5, Movement 2
  • 11. Early Version of Suite no. 5, Movement 3
  • 12. Early Version of Suite no. 5, Movement 4
  • 13. Early Version of Suite no. 5, Movement 4
  • 14. Autograph Version of Suite no. 6, Movement 4