Georg Friedrich Händel

Sarabande En Re Mineur

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This piece is taken from the Fourth Suite in D minor HWV 437, belonging to the second collection of pieces for harpsichord published in London in 1733 under the title Suites de pièces pour le clavecin, 2d volume. The Sarabande, one of the four canonical dances in the suite, along with the Allemande, Courante and Gigue, is originally a Spanish dance, with ternary meter and moderately slow movement. Here, it is treated as a variation on the Follia theme.