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Topic: HWV number for Handel piece  (Read 1942 times)

Offline dadoffive

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HWV number for Handel piece
on: November 11, 2024, 02:54:25 PM
I am trying to find the HWV catalog number for Handel's Gavotte in C found in the ABRSM Grade 1 syllabus.  After an extensive Google search, I haven't found anything.  I don't know if this part of a larger work or an arrangement from a work for another instrument.  Could someone who can get that information please reply with it?
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Kevin

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Re: HWV number for Handel piece
Reply #1 on: November 11, 2024, 05:59:44 PM
This is an arrangement from the opera Atalanta, HWV 35, specifically from Act III, the last sinfonia (gavotta). I don't know who did the particular ABRSM arrangement. An alternate arrangement can be found in Clementi's Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Pianoforte, lesson 3.

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Re: HWV number for Handel piece
Reply #2 on: November 11, 2024, 07:33:56 PM
Thank you.  That's exactly what I was looking for.

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Re: HWV number for Handel piece
Reply #3 on: June 13, 2025, 06:26:25 PM
I wondered how I knew the melody so well and discovered I'd learn to play this piece in Denes Agay's Classics to Moderns, book 1 way back in 1986/7. It was simply titled Gavotte.
In his foreword to the book, Agay states:
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Selections are in their original forms, neither re-arranged nor simplified.
The ABRSM has listed the Classics to Moderns, book 1 as a source for the piece for the grade 1 syllabus 2025 & 2026.
The very same engraving, used by Agay, can be seen for sale on the SHEETMUSICDIRECT site:
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/443512/Product.aspx

The edition on the IMSLP site
https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/188560
appears to be the same arrangement but created anew in Finale.

None of these sources hint at who originally created this arrangement for piano in C major - if it wasn't Denes Agay.
Who transposed it to the key of C; edited out some passages; gave the fingering suggestions; edited some of the dynamics; and who created the left hand accompaniment that doesn't match Handel's sheet music for three trumpets?

Makes me wonder if the edition chosen by Agay is from another book similar in nature to Clementi's Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Pianoforte.
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