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This is one of George Frideric Handel’s earliest keyboard pieces, composed around 1705 when he was only 20 and living in the north German
city of Hamburg. There he played violin, and later harpsichord, in the Hamburg Opera. At that time, too, he composed keyboard pieces, arias,
cantatas and his first opera, Almira.
The gavotte is a graceful Baroque dance movement, usually moderate in tempo. Handel’s themes give it a lyrical character: a three-note figure
(first falling, then rising) in bar 1; and a sequence of two-note slurred figures in bars 2–3. Almost the whole piece is based on these two themes.
Source: MS copy, London, British Library, R.M. 19.a.4. The slurs in bar 3 are editorial suggestions only, as are all the dynamics and ornaments.

© 1991 by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

Adapted from Baroque Keyboard Pieces, Book I, edited by Richard Jones (ABRSM)

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