This handbook covers <strong>Handel</strong>s best known public music the Water Musicwritten at the outset of his English career and the Music for the RoyalFire... » 

This handbook covers Handels best known public music the Water Musicwritten at the outset of his English career and the Music for the RoyalFireworks the last and largest of his orchestral creations. The genesis ofthese two orchestral suites is examined in its political as well as musicalcontext practical questions of performance style and interpretation arebalanced by an enquiry into Handels compositional processes and therelationship of his other largescale orchestral compositions especially theConcerti due cori to these suites. Original source material is set alongsidethe most recent theories on Handels character and working methods. Inparticular the problem of borrowings is addressed with reference to mostrecent identifications of Handels sources together with the laterpresentation of these works in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with anaccount of recordings editions and a summary of performance questions. «