Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437)
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The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel
, for solo keyboard (harpsichord
), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred to as Suite de pièce Vol. 2 No. 4. It was first published in 1733.
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
, for solo keyboard (harpsichord
Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred to as Suite de pièce Vol. 2 No. 4. It was first published in 1733.
Movements
The work consists of five movementsMovement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...
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| Movement | Type | Grove ref |
HG Händel-Gesellschaft Between 1858 and 1902, the Händel-Gesellschaft, or "German Handel Society," produced a collected 105-volume edition of the works of Georg Frideric Handel. Even though the collection was initiated by the society, many of the volumes were published by Friedrich Chrysander working alone... ref |
HHA Hallische Händel-Ausgabe The Hallische Händel-Ausgabe is a multi-volume collection of the works of George Frideric Handel. It was first published in the 1950s: initially as an adjunct to the HG edition, but by 1958 as a collected edition in its own right... ref |
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| 1 | Prelude Prelude (music) A prelude is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. The prelude can be thought of as a preface. It may stand on its own or introduce another work... |
107 | xlviii, 149 | Partly used in the prelude from HWV 428. HWV 561 is another version of the prelude. | |
| 2 | Allemande Allemande An allemande is one of the most popular instrumental dance forms in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite... |
108 | ii, 81 | iv/5, 29 | |
| 3 | Courante Courante The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era.... |
109 | ii, 82 | iv/5, 30 | |
| 4 | Sarabande Sarabande In music, the sarabande is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of quarter notes and eighth notes in alternation... (with two variations) |
110 | ii, 82 | iv/5, 31 | This piece is featured prominently in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period romantic war film produced, written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray which recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer... and Brian De Palma's Redacted Redacted (film) Redacted is a 2007 American war film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It is a fictional dramatization, loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq... . |
| 5 | Gigue Gigue The gigue or giga is a lively baroque dance originating from the British jig. It was imported into France in the mid-17th century and usually appears at the end of a suite... |
111 | ii, 83 | iv/5, 33 | |