Georg Friedrich Händel
Wassermusik. Suite I
Duration: 4'
Bearbeitung: Randall Snyder
Instrumentation details:
flute
clarinet in Bb
bassoon
marimba
Wassermusik. Suite I
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Georg Friedrich Händel
Klarinette in B (Wassermusik. Suite I)
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Type: Stimme
Georg Friedrich Händel
Marimbaphon (Wassermusik. Suite I)
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Type: Stimme
Georg Friedrich Händel
Wassermusik. Suite I
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Type: Dirigierpartitur
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Work introduction
Water Music Revisited, takes a whack at a piece that has long intrigued (obsessed) me. As
the story goes, in 1717 Handel in an attempt to win back the favor of King George I arranged
to have this music performed on a barge floating on the Thames. This extraordinarily healthy,
clean limbed music is actually a loose collection of some twenty pieces from which various
suites of usually three to five movements are performed in concert. In 1965 I arranged three
movements for Wind Ensemble in a purist historically correct version (including harpsichord).
Then, last March, with nothing better to do, I declared a “Handel Month” and rearranged the
pieces for large Symphonic Band as well as Saxophone Choir. Still not satisfied, I decided
at one last go of it, writing a post-modern fantasy based on a single Allegro movement. Hopefully
this last effort will finally exorcise the Handel demon and get the piece off my back once and
for all
This music was written in 2009 for the New Music Agency, Lincoln Nebraska