Händel G. Concerto for viola and orchestra B minor. Piano score and part

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Alexey Vladimirovich Lyudevig is the graduate of the Leningrad Conservatoire, where he studied at professor A. G. Sosin, founder of viola class in Leningrad.

Since 1960, after finishing the Conservatoire and postgraduate programme, A. Lyudevig started teaching at the Leningrad Conservatoire, bringing up the generation of excellent musicians.

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Preface

The concerto for viola and orchestra B minor of G. F. Händel was first published under edition and instrumentation by Henri-Gustave Casadesus (1879–1947). The representative of the famous family of French musicians, the violist and the viola d’amour player, Casadesus was also an author of several compositions. There are serious arguments to suppose the Concerto for viola and orchestra B minor of G. F. Händel in fact was created by Casadesus (especially he created some similar stylizations, for example, Suite for string orchestra, which was attributed to С. Ph. E. Bach) — just as Concert for violin “Adelaida” which was attributed to Mozart, was written probably by Henri Casadesus’s brother Marius.

Themes of the Concerto B minor and total structure of cycle of three movements have been written with outward preservation of traditions of Händel and his contemporaries. However, on closer examination it is clear not only in instrumentation (2 flutes, 2 bassoons, strings without figured bass), which indisputably was made by Casadesus, but also in methods of development, structure and tonality plan of the movements, it will become visible a lot of features, characteristic rather for Viennese classicism. However, bright and dramatic music of this concert, still adorning viola repertoire, is now performed, edited and recorded as Händel’s composition.

Alexey Lyudevig,
professor,
Honoured Art Worker of Russia