The present edition is based on my first edition of the sonata in the original key of G major, which was published in 1974 by Hänssler as the third of what are called the “Fitzwilliam Sonatas” for alto recorder and basso continuo.1 The old and the new edition are both based on Handel’s composition autograph. This comprises pages 61–64 of a manuscript volume held in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge with the shelf number Mus. 30. H. 11., MS. 261.2 According to the paper, script and style, the s...