Water Music

The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often considered as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel.
It premiered in the summer on July 17, 1717 when King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed by 50 musicians playing on a barge close to the royal barge from which the King listened with some close friends (including the Duchess of Bolton, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Countess of Godolphin, Madam Kilmarnock, and the Earl of Orkney).

George I was said to have loved it so much that he ordered the exhausted musicians to play the suites three times on the trip.