Easy Piano Pieces and Dances

This performing edition offers a selection of the easiest keyboard pieces and dances by George Frideric Handel. Although Handel’s keyboard works occupy a modest place in his extensive compositional output, they include many pieces of outstanding significance.

Himself a virtuoso keyboard player, Handel wrote not only difficult music for his instrument but also a considerable number of easy pieces from various stages in his career.

Alongside wellknown pieces such as the Sarabande in D minor, this edition includes pieces which bring discoveries and surprises. It is particularly in his dance numbers that Handel reveals himself as a true master of the easy but euphonious keyboard piece. Many minuets, airs and marches appear here for the first time in a printed collection, a clear indication of the editorial value of this edition. The reliable fingering and the notes on ornamentation make the collection very practical to use. A varied and unusual range of pieces for piano lessons with valuable notes on the works and a spacious appearance on the page.

Table of Contents:

• Air B-flat major HWV 471
• Air D minor HWV 461
• Aria con variazioni B-flat major HWV 434/3
• Bourrée
• Entrée G minor HWV 453/2
• Gavotte G major HWV 491
• Hornpipe
• Impertinence G minor HWV 494
• March G major HWV 419/2
• March G major HWV 419/3
• Minuet A major HWV 546
• Minuet B-flat major HWV 556
• Minuet G minor HWV 453/4
• Minuet G minor HWV 532
• Minuet G minor HWV 540b
• Ouverture D minor HWV 448/1
• Preludio and Allegro G minor HWV 574
• Preludio and Chaconne G major HWV 442
• Sarabande con variazioni D minor HWV 437/4
• Sonata
• Sonatina B-flat major HWV 585
• Sonatina D minor HWV 581
• Sonatina G major HWV 582
• Toccata G minor HWV 586

Publisher:	Bärenreiter
Composer/Author:	Handel, G. F.
Arranger/Editor:	Töpel, Michael
Catalog Number:	BA6578
Pages:	31