Concerto Grosso in A minor

Concerto Grosso in A minor

Georg Friederich Händel

Number 4 from the 12 Concerti Grossi, op 6

Arranged by Peter Billam

For Recorders and Harpsichord

© Peter J Billam, 1997

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Concerto Grosso op 6 no 4 in A minor

by Georg Friederich Händel

In the days when the aristocracy patronised the art of music, the richest andmost musical employed their own orchestras and composers.The high pointof the musical calendar would occur when travelling virtuosi would visitcourt, talent-spotting or looking for employment, giving lessons and con-certs. For such concerts, concerti grossi were written.They giv e the orches-tra the chance to swap phrases with top class soloists, and to play along withthem, perhaps to impress them and so improve their career options.

Bach wrote six concerti grossi, theBrandenburg Concerti.

Handel wrote nineteen concerti grossi; six in opus 4 published in 1734, oneknown asAlexander’s Feastcomposed in 1736, and twelve in opus 6 pub-lished in 1739.

The original of opus 6 no 4 in A minor is for string orchestra with two violinsoloists. Thisarrangement is for harpsichord and recorders; it is designed tobe conducted from the keyboard, as would have been the practice at the time.

There are four contrasting movements; the first a lyrical solo for Altorecorder (the low E is played by half-shading the end-hole with the knee),the second an dramatic display for multiple soprani, the third serene sus-tained chords for SAT over a walking bass line, and the fourth an energeticromp.

Peter J Billam

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Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from 1973 to1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as Musical Directorof the Théâtre Populaire Romand, and as recording engineer, record producer and computerprogrammer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, lectured in composition at the Conservatorium,conducted recorder ensembles and choirs, studied recorder, voice and harpsichord.He foundedwww.pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line, with on-line delivery,taking scores from Composer to Performer in one immediate step.Www.pjb.com.auoffers a newapproach to music publishing. These pieces arewritten to be read, made to be played !

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