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Philip Edward Fisher: Handel: Keyboard Suites 1

Read "Handel: Keyboard Suites 1" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti (not to mention Francois Couperin and Dieterich Buxtehude) were not the only figures of the High Baroque to compose memorable keyboard music. George Frideric Handel composed two sets of eight keyboard suites each, published in 1720 and 1733, respectively, that remain highly regarded. These suites are comparable to those of Bach (English Suites (BWV 806-811), French Suites, BWV 812-817, Partitas, BWV 825-830) in structure, both men composing in the Baroque suite du danses form ...

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