George Frideric Handel

Passepied in C major, HWV 559

c. 1721–1722

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 menuet in D major (HWV 504) 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: 0' 30"

Difficulty: 1