A. Akvilev compared it to Joyful Overture and wrote:

Koffler’s other orchestral piece, the Händeliana (variations on the theme of Händel’s Passacaglia) makes a much better impression. In that work, Koffler manages to present a distinctive interpretation of Handel’s music and adds thirty original variations to the theme of the Passacaglia. It is here that Koffler’s technical abilities prove their worth.

Gołąb concludes that Händeliana was most likely not merely an arrangement of Handel’s music, but an original work using a theme from the latter composer’s keyboard Suite in G Minor, HVW 432.