Fireworks Suite by Handel: Lesson Ideas
The Minuet from Handel's Fireworks Suite features in Grade 1 Piano Exam Pieces in the 2025 & 2026 Piano syllabus.
This resource created by Karen Marshall is designed to be taught over approximately 6 weeks.
Karen Marshall has provided a resource toolkit in the style of her ABRSM Piano Star Skills Builder book. You can find some free sample pages for Karen's book here to download and please visit the ABRSM shop to purchase a copy.
By exploring these activities, you will be incorporating the other elements of the exam into your lessons – sight reading, scales/arpeggios, creativity and aural skills.
Get started by clicking left or right or using the chapter headings on the right-hand side.
1. What's included?
Aural
This is a teacher resource to use with your pupil, in conjunction with the piece of music. This will not only help your pupil play this piece with greater understanding and more expression, it will also help with some of the aural tests in the exam.
Practice Play Cards
An assortment of activities covering scales, theory, reading, aural, technique, composing, improvising, expression and posture.
Theory worksheet
An activity sheet exploring all the notation and terms in the music.
Background on the piece of music
“The piece comes from a suite which King George II of England commissioned from George Handel in 1748. It was to accompany a triumphant celebration with fireworks, of the important peace treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle which brought a long war to an end."
On the following pages, activities have been suggested in a certain order. These lesson plans may move at a pace too quick or too slow for your pupil, so please feel free to amend these lesson ideas to suit your pupils' needs.