A keyboard suite by this composer ends with a G minor passacaglia that was arranged for violin and viola duet by Johan Halvorsen.
A keyboard suite by this composer ends with a G minor passacaglia that was arranged for violin and viola duet by Johan Halvorsen. He called for nine natural trumpets and nine natural horns in a wind suite whose central movement, marked Largo alla siciliana, is "La Paix" [lah PEH]. This composer heavily used sixteenth-note melismas and word painting in a three-part choral piece with movements such as (*) "All we like sheep have gone astray." Since its inception, every British coronation has performed this composer's anthem Zadok the Priest. For a concert on a barge down the River Thames, George II commissioned this composer's Water Music. For 10 points, name this composer whose oratorio Messiah includes the "Hallelujah" chorus.
A keyboard suite by this composer ends with a G minor passacaglia that was arranged for violin and viola duet by Johan Halvorsen.
George Frideric Handel [or Georg Friedrich HÃ¤ndel] 