Handel: "Minuet" and "Trio" from "The Royal Fireworks"

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Handel: "Minuet" and "Trio" from "The Royal Fireworks"

Description:
Ian Wooldridge on cornet, accompanied by Strathroy United Church music director Edith Hanselman on organ, performs the Minuet and Trio from The Music for the Royal Fireworks as part of the prelude to begin the June 29, 2008 Canada Day Service. Mr. Wooldridge is the principle cornet player for the Abbey Brass in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. The Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) was composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749. It was to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. The performing musicians were in a specially constructed building which had been designed by Servandoni, a theatre designer. The music provided a background for the royal fireworks. However the display was not as successful as the music. The enormous wood building caught fire due to the fall of the bas relief of George II. However, the music had been performed publicly six days earlier, on 21 April 1749 when there was a full rehearsal of the music at Vauxhall Gardens. Over twelve thousand people, each paying 2s 6d, rushed for it, causing a three-hour traffic jam of carriages, after the main route to the area south of the river was closed (after the new London Bridge's central arch collapsed and it had to be closed). The work is in five movements: Overture: Adagio, Allegro, Lentement, Allegro Bourrée La paix: Largo alla siciliana La réjouissance: Allegro Menuet I/II When published, Handel wished to present the work as an overture, but royal moves had it given the title Music for the Royal Fireworks as propaganda in favour of an otherwise unpopular Treaty and monarch.

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Strathroy, United, Church, Handel, Music, for, the, Royal, Fireworks, Ian, Wooldridge, Minuet, Trio,