Classical Composer: | Handel, George Frideric |
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Work: | Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 |
Year Composed: | 1749 |
Instrumentation: | 0, 3, 0, 2 - 3, 3, 0, 0, timp, str |
Publishers: |
C.F. Peters New York Edwin F. Kalmus Chester Music and Novello & Co. Oxford University Press Deutsche Handelgesellschaft Edition Eulenburg Bärenreiter Verlag Breitkopf & Härtel |
Duration: | 00:10:00 |
Period: | Baroque (1600-1750) |
Work Category: | Orchestral |
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The Royal Fireworks Music was written many years later to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which brought to an end the War of the Austrian Succession. The occasion was a magnificent one, with a crowd of 12, 000 watching the rehearsal, and the music played in London's Vauxhall Gardens by a band of 100 musicians, as reports alleged.
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