Dramatic Effect Harpsichord music by Handel - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... exciting and eloquent throughout ...'

It is not at all easy to sort the history and chronology of Handel's keyboard music. Many pieces may have been written in his boyhood days at Halle; others were probably used for teaching in Hamburg, when he was playing regularly in the opera house. After his Italian period, he was briefly in Germany again and then finally in England, where more harpsichord music was written, and the various pieces were organised into 'suites' not always with the composer's authority...

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

HARPSICHORD MUSIC

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