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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 22 movements in 3 suites |
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| Composition Year | 1715-36 |
| Genre Categories | Suites; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra; |
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Complete Score
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Suite No.1 in F major (Nos.1–10), HWV 348
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Suite No.2 in D major (Nos.11–15), HWV 349
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Suite No.3 in G major (Nos.16–22), HWV 350
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Appendix (with alternative movements)
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| Work Title | Water Music |
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| Alternative. Title | Wassermusik ; The Celebrated Water-Musick |
| Name Translations | Vízizene; موسيقى الماء; Música aquàtica; Wassermusik; Akva muziko; |
| Name Aliases | Musica acuatica; الموسيقى المائية; Water Music, HWV 348—350; HWV 348–350; Musiikkia vesillä; HWV 348—350 |
| Authorities | WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 177403206; LCCN: n80008124; GND: 300066341; BNF: 13913171v |
| Composer | Handel, George Frideric |
| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | HWV 348-350 |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IGH 556 |
| Key | see below |
| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 22 movements (3 suites):
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1715-36 |
| First Performance. | 1717-07-17 in London, River Thames* |
| First Publication. | 1733* |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 45 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Baroque |
| Piece Style | Baroque |
| Instrumentation | orchestra |
| InstrDetail | piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, bassoon 2 horns, 2 trumpets, strings, continuo |
| External Links | Wikipedia article All Music Guide Scores at Sheet Music Plus |
| Extra Information | *Suites I and II likely performed during the famous 1717 river journey of George I, with Suite I possibly performed for a similar trip nearly 2 years before. The third suite seems to have been composed nearly 2 decades later for a river journey of the Prince of Wales. The earliest "complete" publication contains only music from the first two suites. The sequence of numbers, and their groupings into suites, is quite inconsistent from publication to publication. The designation of the three suites appears to originate with Thurston Dart in the 1950s. The first edition to publish it as such was the Eulenburg edition published in 1959, edited by Brian Priestman. |
"There is evidence for the different arrangement found in Chrysander's Gesellschaft edition of Handel's works (in volume 47, published in 1886), where the movements from the "suites" in D and G were mingled and published as one work with HWV 348. This sequence derives from Samuel Arnold's first edition of the complete score in 1788 and the manuscript copies dating from Handel's lifetime. Chrysander's edition also contains an earlier version of the first two movements of HWV 349 in the key of F major composed in 1715 (originally scored for two natural horns, two oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo), where in addition to the horn fanfares and orchestral responses, the original version contained an elaborate concerto-like first violin part."
