1. The Keyboard Suites of Handel and Bach
... of Halle. His parents were quite different than Bach's, for neither had any association with music - his father was a barber and surgeon, and his mother was the daughter of the local church pastor. Handel's father, Georg Handel, was in no was in no way a lover of music, and he thought of music as anything but a viable profession for young George ... Both suites use Baroque dances as movements, and begin with a prelude. Furthermore, both suites use the common progression of dance movements - allemande, courante, saraband, gigue - as the basis for order. Handel simply omits the sarabande ...
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