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Georg Friedrich Handel.

Publication: Notes
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Georg Friedrich Handel.(Hallische Handel-Ausgabe)

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Georg Friedrich Handel. Klavierwerke II: Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin: Zweite Sammlung von 1733, HWV 434-442. Herausgegeben von Peter Northway; Neuausgabe von Terence Best. Kassel: Barenreiter, 1999. (Hallische Handel-Ausgabe; Ser. IV: Instrumentalmusik, Bd. 5.) [Editorial policy, pref., in Ger., Eng., p. vii-xxxi; facsims., p. xxxii-xxxvi; score, 133 p. Cloth. ISMN M-006-49582-5; BA 4065. [euro]122.]

Georg Friedrich Handel. Klavierwerke II: Suites de Pieces pour le Clavecin: Zweite Sammlung von 1733, HWV 434-442. Herausgegeben von Peter Northway; Neuausgabe von Terence Best. Urtext der Hallischen Handel-Ausgabe. 7th expanded edition. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2004. [Editorial note, pref., in Ger., Eng., p. iv-xxxviii; facsims., p. xxix-xxxiii; score, 133 p. ISMN M-006-44621-6; BA 4221. [euro]21.95.]

Georg Friedrich Handel. Klavierwerke I-IV: Die acht grossen Suiten, erste Sammlung von 1720; Suites de Pieces pour Clavecin, zweite Sammlung von 1733; Einzelne Suiten und Stiicke, erste Folge; Einzelne Suiten und Stucke, zweite Folge. Kritischer Bericht von Terence Best. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2000. (Hallische Handel-Ausgabe; Ser. IV: Instrumental-musik, Bd. 7.) [Abbrevs., p. 6; introduction, general survey, sources, p. 7-50; detailed notes, p. 51-146. Cloth. ISMN M-006-49584-9; BA 4067. [euro]113.]

Editing George Frideric Handel's keyboard music is not for the faint of heart. The editor of this repertory faces a number of formidable obstacles not typically encountered in the other works of Handel, nor for that matter in the music of almost every other baroque composer. The crux of the problem lies in the lack of reliable sources, as the editor of this volume, Terence Best, explains in the preface to the revised second volume of Handel's keyboard suites (p. xxvi):

For most of Handel's works it is possible to speak of primary sources (usually autographs),...

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