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George Frideric Handel

Suite in D minor, HWV 447

c. 1738–1739

[IMSLP]

Total duration: 7' 30"

1. Allemande
2. Courante
3. Sarabande
4. Gigue

Recommended editions

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (Bärenreiter) · IV/6 · BA 4028 · Klavierwerke III / Einzelne Suiten und Stücke, Erste Folge · ed. Terence Best
Bärenreiter · BA 4222 · Klavierwerke III / Einzelne Suiten und Stücke, Erste Folge · ed. Terence Best
Wiener Urtext · UT 50118b · Klavierwerke I, Teil b · ed. Peter Williams

1. Allemande

Duration: 2'

Difficulty: 2.5

2. Courante

Duration: 2'

Difficulty: 2.5

3. Sarabande

The theme is also used in the arias Un aura flebile and Non è possibile from respectively the cantatas Aure soavi e lieti (HWV 84) and Clori, vezzosa Clori (HWV 95), and the aria Love ever vanquishing from the second version of the oratorio Acis and Galatea (HWV 49b).

Duration: 2' 30"

Difficulty: 1.5

4. Gigue

An alternative version of the movement is used in the suite in C major (HWV 443).

Duration: 1'

Difficulty: 2