# Water Music is performed on the Thames for George I on 17 July 1717 as received

Date: 1717

## The fact

On 17 July 1717 [Handel](/people/george-frideric-handel)’s Water Music was performed for George I on the Thames as the received public occasion. This Fact is that royal-river concert instrument, not the 1749 Fireworks and not a unique barge-payroll.

It is one event.

## Context

A public royal water party is a cohesion-and-court-music object.

George Frideric Handel’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

The Daily Courant and later lives print a royal barge concert on 17 July 1717. Suites as later concert groupings are editorial. George I is the named patron. Handel is the named composer. This is verified as a 1717 Thames event, not a later Proms broadcast.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Handel House chronology and Britannica independently date the 1717 Thames performance.

Official or archival record: Handel Hendrix House — Learn about Handel (https://handelhendrix.org/discover/learn-about-handel; Handel House Trust).

## Significance

A documented royal outdoor concert is a public-culture path. Confidence high on 17 July 1717 as the newspaper-and-handbook date.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 17 July 1717 Thames performance of Water Music. Not established: that every movement now grouped as ‘Water Music’ played that night in modern order.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by George Frideric Handel.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `social-cohesion` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. George Frideric Handel did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A barge is not a foundling chapel. Split 1717 from 1750. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of George Frideric Handel.

## People

- George Frideric Handel: https://factrail.ai/people/george-frideric-handel

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://handelhendrix.org/discover/learn-about-handel
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gfh-water-music-1717