ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; [HWV 55] 18th century. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft VI). Full score of the original version, differing from that in H-G. For the autograph see R.M.20.d.5; for other copies see R.M.18.d.8 and R.M.19.b.1. ff. 123. 9 x 11 i...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Amadigi; [HWV 11] 18th century. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXII). Full score. [Main autograph lost] For other copies see R.M.19.g.2 and R.M.18.b.16. ff. 169. 9 x 11.5 in. Giacomo Rossi, librettist: Antoine Houdar de Lamotte, librettist and aesthetician: Han...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Giulio Cesare; circa 1725. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXVIII). Full score. ff. 146. 8.75 x 11 in. Nicola Francesco Haym, composer, poet and theatre manager: Giacomo Francesco Bussani, librettist: Handel's 'Giulio Cesare' to a libretto by Nicola Francesco Ha...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Giulio Cesare; circa 1725. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXVIII). Full score, containing: (f. 143) ‘Additional Songs… sung by Sigra Sorrossina’; (f. 157) ‘Additional Songs… sung by Sigr Baccini’ in 1725. Some of these songs are not in H-G. ff. 159. 8.25 x 11 in...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Muzio Scevola; [HWV 13] 18th century. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXIV). Full score. Act I is by Filippo Mattei, Act II by Giovanni Battista Bononcini, act III (H-G. LXIV) by Handel. None of the composers are named in this copy, which contains parts of Scenes ...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. XXIX; 18th century. Copy. Selections from Operas, in full scores, unless otherwise described. ff. 107. 9 x 11.5 in. 1. ff. 1-63v. Muzio Scevola, Act III (H-G. LXIV). An air ‘A chi vive’ in sc. 8 is omitted in H-...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Floridante; circa 1733. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXV). Full score of Act I, wanting parts of Scenes 6 and 7. Some of the airs are transposed and the recitatives altered, probably for the revival in 1733. Smith Collection. For autograph see R.M.20.b.2; for a...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: Messiah; [HWV 56] 18th century. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft XLV). Harpsichord part of the first version down to the beginning of bar 13 from the end of ‘Glory to God’; the voice-parts in short score. Wrongly described on the binding as ‘Sketch of part of the M...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. G.F. Handel: The Passion of Christ (Brokes Passion) (on a text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes) (HWV 48); 18th century. Copy. (Händel-Gesellschaft XV; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/7, 1965). Full score. Written in England in a German hand. The tempi of some of the numbers are d...