Baerenreiter Verlag Easy Piano Pieces and Dances - Handel/Topel - Piano - Book

Composer: Georg Friedrich Handel
Editor: Michael Topel
Fingerings: Annette Topel
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano

• The ideal introduction to Handel's keyboard music
• Varied selection of Handel's easiest keyboard pieces
• Trustworthy edition with explanatory notes and reliable fingering

This performing edition offers a selection of the easiest keyboard pieces and dances by George Frideric Handel. Although Handel's keyboard works occupy a modest place in his extensive compositional output, they include many pieces of outstanding significance.

Himself a virtuoso keyboard player, Handel wrote not only difficult music for his instrument but also a considerable number of easy pieces from various stages in his career.

Alongside well-known pieces such as the Sarabande in D minor, this edition includes pieces which bring discoveries and surprises. It is particularly in his dance numbers that Handel reveals himself as a true master of the easy but euphonious keyboard piece. Many minuets, airs and marches appear here for the first time in a printed collection, a clear indication of the editorial value of this edition. The reliable fingering and the notes on ornamentation make the collection very practical to use. A varied and unusual range of pieces for piano lessons with valuable notes on the works and a spacious appearance on the page.

Contents:

• Preface
• Gavotte in G major HWV 491
• Air in D minor HWV 461, Hornpipe
• Minuet in G minor HWV 540b
• Minuet in B-flat major HWV 556
• Minuet in G minor HWV 532
• March in G major HWV 419/2
• March in G major HWV 419/3
• Minuet in A major HWV 546
• Sarabande con variazioni in D minor HWV 437/4
• Entree in G minor HWV 453/2
• Air in B-flat major HWV 471
• Toccata in G minor HWV 586
• Ouverture in D minor HWV 448/1
• Impertinence in G minor HWV 494, Bourree
• Sonatina in G major HWV 582
• Sonatina in B-flat major HWV 585
• Sonatina in D minor HWV 581
• Preludio and Chaconne in G major HWV 442
• Preludio and Allegro in G minor HWV 574, Sonata
• Minuet in G minor HWV 453/4
• Aria con variazioni in B-flat major HWV 434/3