Water Music
The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request for a concert on the River Thames.
Belshazzar (Handel)
Handel composed "Belshazzar" in the late Summer of 1744 concurrently with "Hercules", during a time that Winton Dean calls "the peak of Handel's creative life". The work premiered the following Lenten season on 27 March 1745 at the King's Theatre, London. The work fell into neglect after Handel's death, with revivals of the work occurring in the United Kingdom in 1847, 1848 and 1873. With the revival of interest in Baroque music and historically informed musical performance since the 1960s, "Belsahzzar" receives performances in concert form today and is also sometimes fully staged as an opera. Among other performances, "Belshazzar" was staged at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2008.