Thursday 17 August 2023
Tune of the Day: Adagio by Handel
from Violin Sonata in A major
Today we propose the opening movement from a sonata for violin and basso continuo in A major, HWV 372, first published in 1730. It was originally thought to have been composed by George Frideric Handel, but modern scholars consider this doubtful, and have labelled it as “spurious”.