Music for the Royal Fireworks, La Paix (violin duo)

Title: La Paix (Peace), from Music for the Royal Fireworks

Composer: G. F. Handel, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Two Violins

Printout: 2 pages

Note: Music for the Royal Fireworks is Handel’s musical response to the end of the Austrian War of Succession. La Paix is the pastoral slow movement that is, in some ways, the heart of the suite. La Paix is very popular as wedding music. It is useful as prelude music, a musical meditation, or even as a slow processional.