George Frideric Handel

Menuet in G major, HWV Anh. A 15/2

c. 1718

The instrumentation of this piece is unspecified; the catalogue of Bernd Baselt describes it as for an instrumental upper voice and basso continuo. This is an arrangement of the aria Would you gain the tender creature from the first version of the oratorio Acis and Galatea (HWV 49a).

Recommended editions

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

Duration: 1' 30"

Difficulty: 1.5