Handel:Music for the Royal Fireworks - Ouverture

[goldenstyx]

Yup this is the version I've been looking for.

This version have the best ending.

[sosome57]

What a grand piece of music! Sounds quite royal, doesn't it? Sounds a bit like fireworks. Anyone know how the fireworks were actually tied into this? Thanks for sharing this.

[padab]

I remember my music teaher telling me that the music was comisioned by George the second for an event. Think the stage for the orchestra actually caught fire or something.

[coronapapi]

The ending is great!!!

[hot5pur11]

So Stately, so Regal.. so Georg Friedrich Handel... No more needs to be said!!

[thisgoestoeleven]

What group is this?

[NYerintransit]

This always lifts my spirits.

[markab26]

Love this version

[camposi]

Ooooooh Handel!

[BGoldie94]

lol im playing this in symphony <3

[DonDiss22]

,too

[Buwi12345]

good version, ideal tempo

[Mozafunkula]

I love French Overtures ;D

[benehey]

i think georg friederich Händel was a german composer, or am i wrong?

[Mozafunkula]

Yes He was, but he spent most of his life in Great Britan =]

[HunterPhenomMakoy]

He was German, but moved to England. He wrote this piece for King George II.

So, Mozafunkula, it is not a French Overture by any means, lol.

[TimNable]

Now THAT'S funny!

[maxi36440529]

why is it called a 'French Overture'?

i mean, does it have any special french characteristic that other overtures don't?

[Mozafunkula]

as you notice in the beginig the trumpets and the kettle drums and how slow it is!

and it has a lot of dotted rythems!

Its pretty easy to recognize it, but that jacka** at the bottom comment page couldnt recognize the style :P

[maxi36440529]

thank u for answering! :D

Do u have anything to do with music?

I don't mean just the fact of studying, but devoting ur life to it too.

I hope u get the idea of my question x)

[Mozafunkula]

No Problem any Time ^.^

I actually have an obssesion in music..Trance and classical..I have a few compositions myself, but they dont even come close to a Handel :P

[UrielArsNoctem]

no it was composed for the Frensh Kings partys :-)

[sitne85]

@maxi36440529 Because G.F.Handel composed it in honour of peace agreement between England and France.

[cataloguetown]

@sitne85 why the need to put his initials- there are no other famous Handels.

[Anoutta]

Too Fast the best one I love is played by Munich Symphoney Orchestra ( Albert Lizzio),, pls anyone have it?

[pawelciol1991]

I think its too fast ... but fine .

[meh54]

I love this piece. So powerful and grand.

[RedSteel142]

we're playing this in our trip to williamsburg in march

[jeffamarie]

Shouldn't they be DOUBLE dotted rhythms? It's supposed to be a French overture, isn't it?

[RDSerebrianny]

This is a matter of the personal judgment. What you say is normally correct, but isn't separate from local acoustic and tempo. This is faster tempo than normal and conductor may judge that the 'double-dotted' was too short to be rhythmical in this performance.

[lizgabay1]

Thank you for posting this. I have almost no orchestra experience and am trying to play the 2d violin part in an orchestra this month. Playing along with this recording is helping me immensely.

[HGSparv]

It IS to fast. The way I remember it, it says andante in the score. Later on the piece moves to an allegro. This recording starts in 100 bpm and moves on to around 112 bpm!

[asianwatcher]

Composition and music theory are not my areas of expertise (I'm a mathematician!) but G.F. Handel is certainly on my list of historic figures that I would like to have met. Extraordinary talent!

[OneLife26]

@asianwatcher music certainly has an element of math.

[marcomangascortas]

It's true that a slower tempi will sound a little bit better. Not only the tempi, but the rythm it could be more cadencious and cantabile: more ternarius, not so binarius.

[Rukifa04]

This is very stunning!

[arcticblue29]

love to hear the start of this overture played fast sounds far better for it.

[sleepingspider]

please if you like the music then listen if not find something else it find for us to run those down but it takes time to put these up so i say thank you iaraculonna for this and the time you put into it . . .

[billyguns2]

WAAAAY too fast! Good heavens, were they about to miss their flight?

[amrite]

not true. this is the speed Handel dictated. please do not LIE.

[billyguns2]

How dare yo accuse me of "lying?"  It is my OPINION, as everyone here has OPINIONS, that this tempo is way too fast. Listen top Sir Charles Mackerras' recording, where he takes a much slower, more majestic and noble tempo; is Mackerras a "liar?" What makes YOU the world's leading authority on Handelian tempi? Did you talk with HAndel recently? I am a lifelong professional musician and have proven my worth on the stage; what are your credentials?

[amrite]

So if you're a professional it means you're perfect and know exactly how Handel wanted it to be. Great. Genius. High five.

[billyguns2]

You say: "This is the speed HAndel dictated." How do you know that? What is your source for making this statement? I want to know, as I am always hungry for knowledge and am always seeking to grow as a musician and artist; I would never presume that I had ever arrived at a state of perfect knowledge; I do not presume how Handel wanted it to be, but I know what sounds right to MY ear. Grow up! How about answering my questions for a change? I would also like an apology for your calling me a liar.

[amrite]

I apologize for calling you a liar. I know because I have a sixth sense involving all composers who lived between 1548 and 1903.

[billyguns2]

Ah, I see you are dealing with your feelings and intuition too. Well, just because you feel one thing doesn't make it perfectly right; it is your opinion. Apology accepted. So your statement "this is the tempo Handel dictated" is based on your "sixth sense," NOT anything indicated in the actual score.

[billyguns2]

Oh, I see that you're a student. When you've had a lifetime of performing experience you may change your opinon, to which you're entitled. I would never be so rude and judgemntal to call you a "liar." As I do not have the score to this in front of me, what is Handel's tempo marking?

[nicksterako]

thnx for posting music for the royal fireworks...what do you mean by ouverture???and why does it also have minuet/menuet??,,is that a version????

[OstrichOwner]

an overture is a piece of (orchestral) music before an opera or suite of music.

A minuet is a piece of (usually dance) music in 3/4 time (such as a waltz rhythm). A minuet is frequently included in a suite of music.