the second and third of dart's sonatas were originally a single sonata (hwv 367a), and was broken into two parts by thurston dart in his edition of 1948. the sonata designated by dart as no. 2 consists of movement 7 of this d minor sonata followed by an earlier version of movement 6 of the same work, concluding with an unrelated minuet by handel, together with a "double" (variation) composed by dart. it has since been published in its original form. this d-minor sonata was later arranged by an unknown hand as a flute sonata in b minor (hwv 367b), published by walsh in about 1730 as op. 1, no. 9.