Skip this text. It is more pleasant to listen to the music itself (sonatas for flute, recorder, oboe, violin and gamba). Such as the magnificent Sonata in F for recorder, of which a version also exists as an organ concerto. In terms of clarity, it did not really help that some of this music appeared in a pirate edition of Walsh in 1732. And that was a shameless forgery too, because it was presented
… as an edition of the competitor Jeanne Roger (Amsterdam). Nor did it help in terms of clarity that part of it was published in 1879 as Handels opus 1. The booklet of this edition presents the traditional history in detail. There is even a clear table in which the contemporary HWV numbers are placed next to the manuscripts and publications. (HJ)more