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Handel - Flute Sonata in D major (I. Adagio)
Sheet music for flute
| Info: | This piece was first published late in 1979. The manuscript carries an attribution to one Weisse, probably Johann Sigismund Weiss, but academics believe it to be Handel's work because several of this sonata's themes appear in other Handel pieces. Like other Handel's flute sonatas, this follows the slow-fast-slow-fast church sonata format. This is the first movement Adagio. It proceeds from a rising, arpeggiated theme similar to Handel's Flute Sonata, HWV 379, and the beginning of his Violin Sonata in D major. |
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| Opus number: | HWV 378 |
| Date: | 1707 |
| Artist: | George Frideric Handel |
| Born: | 23 February 1685, Halle |
| Died: | 14 April 1759, London |
| The artist: | German, later British Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Born in a family indifferent to music, Handel received critical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition. |
| Instrument: | Flute |
| Key: | D major |
| Range: | D4 - D6 |
| Time signature: | 2/2 |
| Tempo: | 18 BPM |
| Duration: | 1:46 |
| Pages: | 1 |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Style: | Classical |
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