George Frideric Handel

Menuet in D major, HWV 504

c. 1720

The instrumentation of this piece is unspecified; the catalogue of Bernd Baselt describes it as for keyboard. Versions of the theme are also used in the passepied in C major (HWV 559) and the ballet music and final chorus of the first version of the opera Radamisto (HWV 12a).

Recommended editions

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (Bärenreiter) · IV/19 · BA 4043 · Einzeln überlieferte Instrumentalwerke II · ed. Terence Best

Duration: 1' 30"

Difficulty: 1