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Handel: "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (Feuerwerksmusik)
Heard this on a German classical station that put it on the playlist at around 2am local time New Year's Morning:
Classic FM UK recommends this for NYE.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica:
Music for the Royal Fireworks, orchestral suite in five movements by George Frideric Handel that premiered in London on April 27, 1749. The work was composed for performance at an outdoor festival celebrating the end of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48). Its first performance preceded a fireworks display.
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Remember him? Fought a war with those insurrectionist colonists in North America... And lost.
Then he went a bit mad.
Happy New Year DUers!
Skäl! 
