# Handel, Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV 437 (cello arr.)

A solemn baroque sarabande, perfect for working on bow distribution and tone.

## About the excerpt

- **Composer:** George Frideric Handel

- **Work:** Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV 437 (cello arr.)

- **Movement:** Sarabande

- **Era:** Baroque (c. 1600–1750)

- **Composed:** 1733

- **Key:** F

- **Metre:** 3/4

- **Tempo:** Lento approximately 58 BPM

- **Clef:** Bass clef

- **Difficulty:** Easy

- **Audition list:** Not a standard excerpt

## Style

Stately, weighty second beat (the sarabande's defining feature).

## Techniques

solo, baroque, lyrical, beginner

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- [Bach: Cello Suite No. 3, Bourrée I](https://arcosounds.com/repertoire/cello/bach-suite-3-bourree), A buoyant dance, the most accessible Bach Suite movement, beloved by beginners and masters alike. Comfortable; Baroque; Bass clef.
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Canonical source: https://arcosounds.com/repertoire/cello/handel-sarabande