Handel’s Grand Concertos Op. 6

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Vadym Rakochi

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English

Routledge
11 December 2025

Theory of music & musicology; Western "classical" music; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750); Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: Routledge Research in Music

This book offers a deep analysis of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos, Op. 6, a part of Handel’s repertoire which has remained relatively understudied. Bringing together an analytical approach to the concertos with their historical context, the author shows how studying these concertos offers new insights into Handel’s innovative and deeply individual compositional techniques, reframing our modern understanding of Handel as a composer. Refocusing scholarly attention on the crucial role of the orchestra, this book demonstrates how Handel utilised a unique compositional strategy that involved juxtaposing and fusing elements of different concerto types, including the grosso, ripieno, solo, and hybrid concerto. Revealing the remarkable consistency and creative deployment of the multilayered interconnections between concerto types in these works, this study shows that they represent a novel development in the history of the concerto genre. Shedding new light on Handel’s Grand Concertos, on Handel as a composer, and the history of the concerto, this book is relevant to Handel scholars, musicologists, music theorists, and all those with a serious interest in Handel and eighteenth-century music.

By: Vadym Rakochi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 770g
ISBN: 9781032983486
ISBN 10: 1032983485
Series: Routledge Research in Music
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Glossary, Chapter one: The concerto and the orchestra, Three constitutive attributes of the instrumental concerto. Non-concerto cases, The birth of the orchestra, Orchestra vs ensemble: similarity vs difference, Chapter two: Types and models of the instrumental concertos, Problems of the instrumental concerto classifications. Concerto grosso, Concerto ripieno and solo concerto, Concerto Models: Handel's Reconsideration of the Corellian Concerto Model, Chapter three: Analysis of the twelve grand concertos op. 6, Introduction, First Concerto, Second Concerto, Third Concerto, Fourth Concerto, Fifth Concerto, Sixth Concerto, Seventh Concerto, Eighth Concerto, Ninth Concerto, Tenth Concerto, Eleventh Concerto, Twelfth Concerto, Conclusions, Table of concerto types, Index, References

Vadym Rakochi, Lecturer in the Department of Music and Scientific Collaborator at the Institute for Music Research at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland (2022–2025), is currently a Docent at Basel University, Switzerland.