River Thames
The Water Music composed by George Frideric Handel premiered on 17 July 1717, when King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed for King George I on his barge and he is said to have enjoyed it so much that he ordered the 50 exhausted musicians to play the suites three times on the trip.
The Harmonious Blacksmith
The Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger based one of his most famous works on this melody. He first wrote his "Variations on Handel's ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’" in 1911. Shortly after, he used the first sixteen bars of his set of variations to create one of his most beloved pieces, "Handel in the Strand". He wrote that the music “seemed to reflect both Handel and English musical comedy”, hence the title. The composer made various versions of the work, most notably, a piano solo version (1930).