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Which Handel harpsichord suite includes the Harmonious Blacksmith variations?

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Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music. — George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel, oil on canvas by Thomas Hudson, c. 1736; in the Foundling Museum, London.

The Harmonious Blacksmith variations are found in the fifth suite of the Suites de pièces pour le clavecin, which was published by George Frideric Handel in 1720.1