Music for the Royal Fireworks Music for the Royal Fireworks The Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351) is a suite for wind instruments composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749. It was to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) in 1748. During the preparations Handel and the Duke of Montagu, the Master General of the Ordnance and the officer responsible for the Royal Fireworks, had an argument about adding violins. The duke
Music box production quantities. They are sought by collectors who have the space for their large or very large cabinets. In 1974–75, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen composed "Tierkreis", a set of twelve pieces on the signs of the zodiac, for twelve music boxes. Music box A music box or musical box is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or "lamellae") of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and called "carillons à