George Frideric Handel : Overture from Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351 sheet music

George Frideric Handel (biography)

1685 , Halle

1759 , London

Important composer from the Baroque period who became a British citizen in 1726. He wrote many operas and oratorios, including the popular Messiah.

1749

The Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) is a wind band suite composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749. It was to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748.



This is the Overture

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