George Frideric Handel - Recorder Sonata in C major, HWV. 365 (1712)

[@meisterwue]

"We have the baroque music, what need we more ....I always understood people saying : Bach Händel Vivaldi Telemann and his contemporaries , it is enough .....already Beethoven is too much...let us praise the baroque period and we have it : consolation......" whoever said it, it is right ❤

[@Tristan-zt8tw]

Beautiful instrument the recorder, what great music this is, so serene.

[@music-nerd6776]

Question: is this the original Händel autograph?

[@sasropakis]

No, it's not. If you follow the link in the description you can find Händel's original manuscript. The manuscript in question is found in a collection Schrank II in Dresden collected by Johann Georg Pisendel and could be copied by Pisendel himself. I don't know why the original manuscript by Händel wasn't used when it's also available. Both manuscripts can be found on IMSLP.

[@bartjebartmans]

I don't have time to figure all this out. I pick what I like to use. That it is actually not Handel's handwriting is too bad.

[@music-nerd6776]

​@@bartjebartmansThanks for the Information

[@music-nerd6776]

​@@sasropakisthank you 👍

[@mogret7451]

@@sasropakis It says this on imslp "Misc. Notes Manuscript kept by Fitzwilliam Museum (Mu. ms. 263, pp. 13-17). This manuscript is lacking of the two first pages containing the first movement (Larghetto) and the beginnings of the second (Allegro). "

[@evanmisejka4062]

I know the baroque is all about ornamentation, but I feel like there are way too many unnecessary ornaments coming from the recorder player in many spots that don't make as much sense to me. Many are just fine, like the 4th movement felt perfect to me.

[@bartjebartmans]

The ornaments are more heavy in the slow movements, way less in faster movements which is common practice for the times. If you look at the Doubles Bach wrote in his Suites you see an even more ornate, virtuosic approach of embellishing melodies.