Music for the Royal Fireworks

Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) (Musik till det kungliga fyrverkeriet) är en svit komponerad av Georg Friedrich Händel 1749 på uppdrag av kung Georg II av Storbritannien till fyrverkeriet i Green Park i London den 27 april 1749. Anledningen var att fira slutet på Österrikiska tronföljdskriget och fredsfördraget i Aix-la-Chapelle 1748.

Bildtexten lyder: "A VIEW of the FIRE-WORKES and ILLUMINATIONS at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND'S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq." Handkolorerad etsning.

Musik och instrumentering

Sviten har fem satser:

  1. Ouverture: Adagio, Allegro, Lentement, Allegro
  2. Bourrée
  3. La Paix: Largo alla siciliana
  4. La Réjouissance: Allegro
  5. Menuets I and II

Externa länkar

  • Hogwood, Christopher (2005) (på engelska). Handel: Water music and Music for the royal fireworks. Cambridge music handbooks, 99-1283780-0. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. Libris 9547022. ISBN 0-521-83636-0 (inb.) 
  • Noter (E-book) of Fireworks Music (utgiven av Friedrich Chrysander, Leipzig 1886)

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A VIEW of the FIRE-WORKES and ILLUMINATIONS at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND'S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq.

Hand coloured etching showing the Royal Fire-workes and Illuminations in Whitehall and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. The occasion for which George Frideric Handel composed his Music for the Royal Fireworks.

The firework display was for the benefit of King George II of Great Britain to celebrate the signing of the treaty at Aix la Chapelle in 1748 marking the end of the War of Austrian Succession. Unfortunately, during the display, one of the fireworks landed on the pavilion of the Temple of Peace, igniting the several thousand fireworks inside and killing three spectators.