Georg Friedrich Händel
Sonata for a Harpsichord with double Keys HWV 579
2 Versions
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Georg Friedrich Händel
Sonata for a Harpsichord with double Keys HWV 579
2 Versions
- Instrumentation Harpsichord
- Composer Georg Friedrich Händel
- Editor Graham Pont
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Edition Güntersberg
- Order no. WALHALL-G288
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Description:
In his famous artistic contest with Domenico Scarlatti, which took place in Rome in 1708, Handel improvised a sonata in G Major. Two versions of this work have been preserved, both of which we reproduce in this edition. One of the versions is explicitly intended for a two-manual harpsichord, and is of particular interest because Handel notated it on four staves. As the Handel-expert Graham Pont explains in his preface, the piece was later arranged and reused a number of times by Handel and others, so that it became one of the most famous works for keyboard instrument in the eighteenth century.