Water Music Georg Friedrich Händel (George Frederic Handel) / Arr. Gerhart Drijvers

Titel / Title: Water Music
Untertitel / Subtitle: Overture and Allegro
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Clarinet Choir
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Baton Music ebsemble series

The Water Music' is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by Georg Friederich Händel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request for a concert on the River Thames. The Water Music' opens with a French overture' and includes minuets', bourrées', and hornpipes'. The Overture' (Largo Allegro) and the 'Allegro'are the most well known parts of the suite and now transcribed for a Clarinet Choir by Dutch arranger Gerhart Drijvers.