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Friday 4 October 2013

Beethoven's symphony 7 and Handel's "Sarabande"

This is the 2nd movement of symphony 7 by Beethoven:



This is "Sarabande" by Handel: 

See, I mean, hear the similarities?
Which reminds me of this fascinating article written about Bach's and Handel's influence on future generations:
http://www.musicanthology.org/?p=5
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3 comments:

  1. Romulus21 October 2020 at 21:29

    Totally agree with you, both pieces sound quite similar, although both pieces of music are fine in their own right, but for me the similarity is either a great coincidence or maybe Beethoven was being clever...?

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    1. Hai-Di Nguyen22 October 2020 at 11:41

      It could be a deliberate allusion, but I think the thing with music is that sometimes a composer might think a tune is from their own head but they've actually heard it somewhere.

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  2. Myles17 November 2022 at 10:59

    I know each of these pieces, absolutely love them, and i simply can never remember which is which. This annoys me no end.

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