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Royal Fireworks Suite
La Réjouissance & Menuet

FREE BASS SHEET MUSIC* - La Réjouissance
Bass Melody Harmony A Harmony B Full Score
FREE VIOLA SHEET MUSIC - Menuet
Bass Melody Harmony A Harmony B Full Score

Scored in three-part harmony, and available with interchangeable viola, cello and violin parts.

La Réjouissance MP3
Melody** Full Score
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Menuet MP3
Melody Full Score
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La Réjouissance and Menuet are two movements from Music for the Royal Fireworks in D, often called the Royal Fireworks Suite, composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Although Handel was born in Germany, he spent most of his adult life as a musician in England working as a court composer and supported by the patronage of the royal family and other prominent members of the aristocracy. In 1749, King George II of England commissioned Handel to write music to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. The resulting work, Music for the Royal Fireworks in D, was played outdoors in 1749 in Green Park, and an elaborate fireworks display was a featured part of the event.[1]

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REFERENCE NOTES
[1] Dean, Winton and Hicks, Anthony. "George Frideric Handel," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London : Macmillian, 1980. 8:83-140.
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