Urtext – first printing edited
EB 8691 contains two scores and thus the complete performance material.
Handel wrote his work while he was still living in Hamburg. Unfortunately, all the extant copies only contain the harpsichord I part; it is possible that Handel improvised the secondo during performance. But thanks to the clear structure of the fragment, the distinguished Handel expert Donald Burrows found an ideal framework on which to build his sensitive and imaginative reconstruction.