Handel - Water music, Music for the Royal fireworks, Concerti a due cori
Score of Händel's Watermusic, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Concerti a due Cori
Chrysander | Edition 1886 | 291 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 57 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1886 | 291 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 57 MB
The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often considered as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered in the summer of 1717 (July 17, 1717) when King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed by 50 musicians that joined King George I on his barge. King George I was said to have loved it so much that he ordered the exhausted musicians to play the suites three times on the trip. The Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) was composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749. It was to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.