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RE: I often rock Handel’s Water Music on my stereo. Fantastic!!

Yes, that was Handel’s other wonderful masterpiece, a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites.

The Alla Hornpipe portion of this piece is played all over the world every time there are dancing fountains.

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Handel was such a popular opera composer that he was allowed to pick his own leading ladies. However, this perk led to an almighty bust-up between sopranos Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni, two rival singers of the day, who ended up having a scrap on stage during a performance of Bononcini's Astianatte. They both had to be dragged off stage to stop them pulling bits off each other's costumes.