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Offline martin_s

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Händel Passacaglia
on: March 14, 2002, 07:33:25 PM
Have anyone heard the superb Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and viola?? I wonder if there is a piano version of this somewhere out there...

Offline nilsjohan

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Re: Händel Passacaglia
Reply #1 on: March 15, 2002, 02:46:21 AM
I think the original actually is from one of Handel's keyboard suites (one in g minor?) but I have never heard it played on the piano. It is really a great piece for strings and is also often played on violin and cello.
Do you have plans to play it? Why not do a piano transcription of the Halvorsen arrangement? ;)

Offline dnephi

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Re: Händel Passacaglia
Reply #2 on: September 06, 2006, 02:32:57 PM
For a festival I had to sightread part of the Handel Passacaglia.  I know it exists in original form for keyboard solo.
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

Offline kitty on the keys

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Re: Händel Passacaglia
Reply #3 on: September 07, 2006, 12:14:49 AM
The pieceis in many repertoire books. I have taught it many times. various challenges of piano tecnique is covered----scales, chords, leaps, rotation, octaves, double notes--it's all there. and a good piece of music too.


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