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Collection Area Music Collections Name Handel, George Frideric, composer, 1685-1759 Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-)

11. R.M.20.a.13

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.13
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Faramondo (dramma per musica after a libretto by Apostolo Zeno), HWV 39. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The numbering of the scenes in the MS is different from that in H-G. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘angefangen den 15 Novembr 1737 Dienstag’. 2. f. 12v. Act I, sc. 5. The passage printed within dotted brackets in H-G., p. 18, are in the MS. 3. ff. 13, 16-18. A setting of ‘Vanne che più ti miro’ ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)

12. R.M.20.b.1

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.1
Title:
Scope & Content:
G.F. Handel: Flavio (drama per musica after a libretto by Matteo Noris) (HWV 16); 1723. Autograph. (Handel-Gesellschaft LXVII; Hallische Handel-Ausgabe II/13, 1993). ff. 33v, 36v, 47v, 88v and 91v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For a copy see Add. MS. 31572; for selections see R.M.1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1723
Extent:
1 item

13. R.M.20.b.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.2
Title:
G.F. Handel: Floridante (dramma per musica after a libretto by Francesco Silvani) (HWV 14); [1721, 1733]. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXV).
Scope & Content:
The MS. differs considerably from the version in H-G. The part of Rossane was originally written for a Contralto (Maddalena Salvai), but when the opera was revived in 1733 it was sung by a Soprano. Consequently the recitatives for Rossane in the earlier version are different from those sung in 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1721-1733
Extent:
1 item

14. R.M.20.b.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.3
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (dramma per musica by Niccolò Francesco Haym after a libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani), HWV 17. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Except when otherwise stated, the words only of the recitatives are written, without music. f. i is a preliminary leaf with a note by Nicolai (‘This opera wants all the Recitativ: and seems very incomplete’). Reversing the volume, on f. 154v, is a repetition of the beginning of the chorus ‘Ritor...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1723
Extent:
1 volume (i + 154 folios)

15. R.M.20.b.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Giustino (dramma per musica after libretti by Niccolò Berengani and Pietro Pariati), HWV 37). Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 4 and 5, 29 and 30, 79 and 80 are folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 4v and 62v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1-6v. Overture. ‘Agost 14. 1736’ at foot of f. 1. The Overture seems originally to have been shorter. The p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 volume (91 folios)

16. R.M.20.b.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.5
Title:
G.F. Handel: Imeneo (dramma per musica after a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia) (HWV 41); 1738-1740. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft XCIII).
Scope & Content:
The MS. is incomplete, and the arrangement difficult to understand (cf. Charles Burney, A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period, London 1789, vol. IV, p. 433, and the Preface to H-G.). The MS. contains practically all that is printed in H-G., excepting the Overtur...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1738-1740
Extent:
1 item

17. R.M.20.b.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.6
Title:
G.F. Handel: Lotario (dramma per musica after a libretto by Antonio Salvi) (HWV 26); 1729.Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXXVII).
Scope & Content:
The part of Lotario is called ‘Ottone’ until scene 12 of Act II. ff. 41v, 42v and 74v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For another copy see Eg. 2927. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), p. 42. ff. 104. 9.5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1729
Extent:
1 item

18. R.M.20.b.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Muzio Scevola, Act III (dramma per musica by Paolo Antonio Rolli), HWV 13. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The MS. is damaged by damp throughout. f. 22v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 5. Sc. 1. The scene represents a ‘Padiglione’ (omitted in H-G., p. 5). 2. f. 12. Sc. 3. ‘Pupille sdegnose.’ ‘Andante’ (H-G., p. 13) is not in the MS. 3. ff. 24-26. Sc. 5. ‘Non ti f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)

19. R.M.20.b.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.8
Title:
G.F. Handel: Orlando (dramma per musica after a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece) (HWV 31); 1732. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXXXII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/28, 1969). See also the Preface to H-G. LXXXII. f. 89v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For copies see R.M.19.f.5., Add. MSS 31564, 31565; for selections see R.M.18.c.6. (ff. 1-4), R.M.18.c.7. (ff. 2-38). See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994)...
Scope & Content:
ff. 89. 9.25 x 11.5in. Points of note: 1. f. 5v. Act I, sc. 2. A ‘Sinfonia. Andante’ of eight bars is crossed out after the stage directions (H-G., p. 7). 2. f. 20. Sc. 5. The recitative (H-G., p. 22) is on f. 52. At the end of ‘Ritorna al suo bel viso’: ‘Attacca il Recit. Angelica. Spera il...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1732
Extent:
1 item

20. R.M.20.b.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.9
Title:
G.F. Handel: Ottone I (dramma per musica after a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino) (HWV 15); 1722. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXVI).
Scope & Content:
Some missing parts of this MS. and of R.M.20.b.10. are in Fitzwilliams MSS Nos 256, 265. Between ff. 14 and 15 is a leaf ruled with staves, but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 21v, 48v, 52v 77v and 78v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also R.M.20.b.10.; for copies see Eg. 2918, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 item