ExclusiveHandel: Suite in G minor, HWV 432 - 6. Passacaille

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Georg Friedrich Händel: Suite in G minor, HWV 432 - 6. Passacaille. This beautiful piece was played by Markus Staab. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

The passacaglia was originally a Spanish folk dance. The name comes from the Spanish pasar (to cross) and calle (street) and literally means 'to cross the street' (or 'to walk across the street'). The Spanish roots have only been passed down through contemporary Spanish literature; the first simple musical examples come from Italy and date from 1606.

"Passacaglia or passaglio [Ital.], passacaille [Gal.], is actually a chaconne. The whole difference consists in the fact that it is usually slower than the chaconne, the melody is more tender, and the expression is not so lively; and for this very reason passacaglias are almost always set in modis minoribus, i.e. in tones that have a soft third (i.e. in minor, author's note)".

- Johann Walther: Musikalisches Lexikon, Leipzig 1732, p. 465

The video was shot by Simone Schlegel in Switzerland and edited by Wenjing Ma.





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