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Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Handel's_Music_for_the_Royal_Fireworks
GPTKB entity
Statements (23)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:orchestra
gptkbp:catalogueNumber
gptkb:HWV_351
gptkbp:commissionedBy
gptkb:King_George_II_of_Great_Britain
gptkbp:composer
gptkb:George_Frideric_Handel
gptkbp:date
1749
gptkbp:dedicatedTo
gptkb:King_George_II_of_Great_Britain
gptkbp:genre
Baroque music
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks
gptkbp:language
instrumental
gptkbp:laterInstrumentation
orchestra with strings
gptkbp:movement
gptkb:Overture
gptkb:Menuets_I_and_II
gptkb:La_Paix_(The_Peace)
gptkb:La_Réjouissance_(The_Rejoicing)
gptkb:Bourrée
gptkbp:notableEvent
fire broke out during premiere fireworks display
gptkbp:notablePerformance
1749 public rehearsal at Vauxhall Gardens
gptkbp:originalInstrumentation
wind instruments and percussion
gptkbp:premiereDate
27 April 1749
gptkbp:premiereLocation
gptkb:Green_Park,_London
gptkbp:purpose
celebration of the end of the War of the Austrian Succession
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:The_English_Concert
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7