Baerenreiter Verlag Keyboard Works, Volume 3 - Handel/Best - Piano - Book

Miscellaneous Suites and Pieces. First Part.

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

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 (25, 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.

Contents:

• 1. Six Fugues or Voluntary's for the Organ or Harpsichord op. 3: g-moll HWV 605 / G-dur HWV 606 / B-dur HWV 607 / h-moll HWV 608 / a-moll HWV 609 / c-moll HWV 610
• 2. Sonata pur le Clavesin C-dur HWV 577
• 3. Capriccio F-dur HWV 481
• 4. Preludio ed Allegro g-moll HWV 574
• 5. Fantaisie C-dur HWV 490
• 6. Suite d-moll HWV 447
• 7. Suite g-moll HWV 452
• 8. Capriccio g-moll HWV 483
• 9. Allemande A-dur HWV 477
• 10. Allemande F-dur HWV 476
• 11. Gigue F-dur HWV 492
• 12. Prelude d-moll HWV 562
• 13. Sonatina (Fuga) G-dur HWV 582
• 14. Sonatina B-dur HWV 585
• 15. Prelude fis-moll HWV 570
• 16. Air A-dur HWV 468
• 17. Sonata con Trio e Gavotta C-dur (fur eine Spieluhr) HWV 578
• 18. Prelude a-moll HWV 575
• 19. Lesson a-moll HWV 496
• 20. Partita A-dur HWV 454
• 21. Prelude g-moll HWV 572
• 22. Sonata fur zweimanualiges Cembalo G-dur HWV 579