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51. R.M.20.e.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.5
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Cantatas VII. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. 9v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-3v. ‘La Solitudine’. ‘Cantata’. For Alto and figured bass (HWV 121) (H-G. L, p. 107). Unfinished, ending in sketches. The words of the unset recitative (H-G., p. 109) should read: ‘Non v’è delizia humana soave più…dalle cure lontana vivo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1705?-1735?]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

52. R.M.20.e.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.6
Title:
G.F. Handel: The Choice of Hercules (a musical interlude on a text by ?Thomas Morell) (HWV 69). Alceste (music for the play by Tobias Smollett) (HWV 45); 1750. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XVIII, XLVI b; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/31, 1963). Between ff. 58 and 59 is inserted a blank leaf, foliated 58a; ff. 9v and 37v are also blank. See also R.M.20.g.13. (ff. 37-39), R.M.20.f.12. (ff. 7-14), Add. MS. 30310 (ff. 13-34); for a copy see R....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1750
Extent:
1 item

53. R.M.20.e.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.8
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Hercules (a ‘musical drama’ by Thomas Broughton, after texts by Sophocles and Ovidius), HWV 60. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The MS. (cf. the Preface to H-G.) contains the divisions into acts and scenes of the Libretto, but not the directions as to Ripieni, etc., in H-G. Between ff. 57 and 58 is inserted a leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated as f. 57a; ff. 83v, 98v, 133v are ruled with staves but oth...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1744
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

54. R.M.20.e.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 70. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 111v-112 and 125v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. f. 135 is an inserted leaf with a note in the hand of F. Nicolay. Points of note: 1. f. 24. ‘These labours past’ (Facs. p. 47). All the lower line is cut in pencil down to ‘…they prove’ (top line p. 48). 2. f. 24v. All the lowe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1751
Extent:
1 volume (136 folios)

55. R.M.20.e.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Joseph and his Brethren (oratorio by James Miller), HWV 59. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The Preface to H-G. XLII and the version A printed in the volume contain full information as to the contents of the MS. The following are a few additional details. ff. 108v and 122v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 4v. Overture. The Menuet (H-G., p. 7) is not i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

56. R.M.20.e.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.11
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Joshua (oratorio by ?Thomas Morell), HWV 64. Autograph
Scope & Content:
According to Barclay Squire, the whole MS. has been foliated in pencil by Handel, but this attribution is questioned by Winton Dean, Handel’s Dramatic Oratorios and Masques, London, 1959, p. 510. f. 43v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Introduzione a tempo d...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

57. R.M.20.e.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Judas Maccabeus (oratorio by Thomas Morell), HWV 63. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 18v, 23v, 38v, 126r and 128v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Ouverture Oratorio Judah Maccabeus. angefangen den 9 July ♂ [Tuesday] 1746. od den 8 [here is the astrological symbol for Monday] dieses’. 2. f. 17v. ‘Not vain is all this storm’. Version A ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1746
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)

58. R.M.20.f.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.2
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56. Autograph manuscript
Scope & Content:
Handel's working compositional manuscript of his oratorio Messiah, in which he set words by Charles Jennens after texts from the Bible. According to the dates added by Handel to the manuscript, the music was largely written between 22 August and 14 September 1741. There are many corrections an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1741
Extent:
1 volume (i + 140 folios)

59. R.M.20.f.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.3
Title:
G.F. Handel: Occasional Oratorio (libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after texts by John Milton and Edmund Spenser) (HWV 62); 1746. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XLIII). According to Barclay Squire the MS. is foliated throughout in pencil by Handel [?doubtful]. Between ff. 35 and 36 is an unfoliated single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, originally foliated 36; ff. 2v, 34v, 61v, 68v and 93v are ru...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1746
Extent:
1 item

60. R.M.20.f.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (text by John Dryden), HWV 76. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 24v and 42v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Ouverture to the Song for St Cecilia’s Day by Mr Dryden. 1687.’ ‘begun Sept. 15, 1739. [Here is the astrological symbol for Saturday]. 2. f. 3v. The Allegro is followed by a Minuet (a version of which is pri...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1739
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

61. R.M.20.f.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.5
Title:
G.F. Handel: La Resurrezione (oratorio by Carlo Sigismondo Capece) (HWV 47); 1708. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XXXIX). f. i bound at end. Between ff. 47 and 48 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 47a; ff. 45v, 46v, 47v and 56v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For a copy see R.M.19.d.4. See also Donald Burrows and Martha ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1708
Extent:
1 item

62. R.M.20.f.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.8
Title:
G.F. Handel: Susanna (oratorio, author of the text unknown) (HWV 66); 1748. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft I; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/28, 1967). f. 49v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also R.M.20.f.12. (ff. 26-31); for a copy see R.M.18.f.4. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: C...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748
Extent:
1 item

63. R.M.20.f.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.9
Title:
G.F. Handel: Theodora (oratorio by Thomas Morell after a text by Robert Boyle) (HWV 68); 1749. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft VIII.)
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. ff. 41v, 48v, 56v and 113v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For a copy see R.M.18.f.6. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), pp. 158-160. ff. 113. 9.25 x 11.75in. Points of note: ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1749
Extent:
1 item

64. R.M.20.f.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo (oratorio by Benedetto Pamphili), HWV 46. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Fragments of the 1737 version. The Overture (on ff. 69-78) and many notes and corrections in Handel’s autograph. Between ff. 16 and 17 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; f.19v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘Qual veggo il...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
1 volume (39 folios)

65. R.M.20.f.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.11
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VII. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 7v, 21v and 28v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Arias with Italian text and instrumental accompaniments. ff. 28. 9.5 x 11.5 in. 1. ff. 1-4v. ‘L’insaziabil fantasia risvegli stravaganti desiri’, recitative, and ‘Troppo audace umano stuolo’, air, for ‘Sigr Andre[oni]’. An addition ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1725-c 1745
Extent:
1 volume

66. R.M.20.f.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VI. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Fragments with English words. f. i was removed during recent conservation work; between ff. 17 and 18, 34 and 35 are single folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; between ff. 43 and 44 are 3 blank leaves, not foliated; ff. 4v, 17v, 21v, 34 and 48v are ruled with staves but o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1735-c 1750
Extent:
1 volume ([i] + 51 folios)

67. R.M.20.f.13

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.f.13
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Songs (German Arias) (on text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, from "Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott" (Hamburg, 1724)), HWV 202-210. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. 17v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. First published at Munich in 1921, edited by Herman Roth. All the songs are for Soprano and Figured Bass, with accompaniment of Violin, Flute or Oboe. 1. ff. 1-3. ‘No.1’ ‘Künft’ger Zeiten eitler Kummer’. 2. ff. 3-4v. ‘No. 2. Aria’. ‘Das zitter...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1729
Extent:
1 volume (19 folios)

68. R.M.20.g.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.3
Title:
G.F. Handel: Saul (oratorio by Charles Jennens) (HWV 53); 1738. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XIII; Hallische Händel-AusgabeI/13, 1962). The MS. has so many alterations and cut that it is difficult to understand. The following is its arrangement. Between ff. 130 and 131 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1738
Extent:
1 item

69. R.M.20.g.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.5
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Utrecht Te Deum (HWV 278) and Jubilate (HWV 279). Autograph
Scope & Content:
The MSS. of both works are foliated in pencil by Handel [?dubious]. ff. 42v, 72v and 73v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 3. ‘tous les Hautb.’ (H-G., p. 3, line 2) is written below the 1st Violin and 1st Oboe part. 2. f. 42. ‘S.D.G. G. F. H. Londres ce 14 de J...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1712-1713
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 73 folios)

70. R.M.20.g.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Instrumental music III. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 15 and 16, 24 and 25 are single folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 1v, 10v, 24v, and 29v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-10. Concerto in D major ( for trumpets and French horns HWV 335a; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe IV/16, 1983) (H-G., p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1749
Extent:
1 volume (29 folios)

71. R.M.20.g.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.8
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. III. Autograph
Scope & Content:
On f. i is a list of contents. 1. ff. 1-6v. ‘Mi palpita il cor’ ‘Cantata’ (HWV 132c). For Alto, Flute and Continuo (H-G L, No. 33, p. 153; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe V/4, 1995). See also R.M.20.e.4. (ff. 1-8); for copies see Add. MSS 29484 (ff. 56v-59v), 31574 (ff. 29-34v). 2. ff. 7-22v. ‘I wil...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1710-c 1725
Extent:
1 volume (i + 22 folios)

72. R.M.20.g.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. I. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 21 and 22, 35 and 36, 38 and 39, 46 and 47 are single folios ruled with staves but otherwise blank foliated respectively 21a, 35a, 38a and 46a; ff. 26v, 30v, 35v, 46v and 51v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-21v. ‘Mottetto’ ‘Silete venti’ (HWV 242) (H-G.XXXVIII, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1707-c 1745
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)

73. R.M.20.g.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Miscellaneous collections and selections vol. VIII. Autograph
Scope & Content:
On f. ii is a list of contents; f. 36v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. ff. 1-13 are copies in Handel’s hand of movements from Antonio Lotti’s Missa Sapientiae [see Music & Letters, 70: 4 (Nov. 1989), p. 537]. 1. ff. 1-9. ‘Gloria in excelsis’ in G major for S.S.A.T.B., Oboe, two V...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1740-c 1750
Extent:
1 volume (iii + 36 folios)

74. R.M.20.g.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Instrumental music II. Autograph
Scope & Content:
1. ff. 1-16v. ‘Concerto per l’Organo ed altri stromenti’ (Op. IV, No. 1, HWV 289)(H-G. XXVIII, p. 1). ‘N. 22’ is written in pencil at the top of the page. Other pencilled notes are almost erased and illegible. f. 5v: The MS ends at the last bar of the Larghetto (H-G., p. 6). On the blank stave b...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1738-1751
Extent:
1 volume (74 folios)

75. R.M.20.g.14

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.g.14
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Instrumental music V. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Lettered on binding: ‘Sketches of Fughes [sic] &c.’. 1. ff. 1-5v. ‘Sonata 5’. Op. V, No 5 (HWV 400) (H-G. XXVII, p. 182). Wanting the Air and Bourrée. For copies see R.M.19.f.6. (ff. 35-43v); R.M.19.g.6. (ff. 44-48). 2. ff. 6-9v. ‘Sonata 6’. Op. V, No 6 (HWV 401) (H-G. XXVII, p. 188). All...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1710-c 1751
Extent:
1 volume (i + 62 folios)

76. R.M.20.h.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.h.4
Title:
G.F. Handel: Solomon (oratorio on a libretto by unknown author) (HWV 67); 1748. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XXI). Between ff. 76 and 77, 87 and 88, 110 and 111, 116 and 117, 134 and 135 are unfoliated single leaves, ruled with staves but otherwise blank; ff.32v, 75v and 76v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank [According to Dean, Winton, Handel’s Drama...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748
Extent:
1 item

77. R.M.20.h.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.h.6
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Dettingen Te Deum (HWV 283); 1743. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 25v and 35v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. ‘ʘ [astrological symbol for Sunday] angefangen July 17 1743’. 2. f. 17. ‘Thou art the King of Glory’. ‘Mr Gates’ is named as the soloist. Note at the bottom of the page (end of H-G., p. 55): ’37 pause’. 3. f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

78. R.M.20.h.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.h.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Psalms (Latin) I. Autograph
Scope & Content:
‘Laudate pueri Dominum’ (Psalm 112) in F (HWV 236) (H-G. XXXVIII, No. I). Points of note: 1. f. 3. ‘Qui sicut Dominus’ (H-G., p. 7). Marked ‘ad[agio]’.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1702?
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

79. Zweig MS 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 37
Title:
George Frideric Handel: ‘Floridante’, opera in three acts (libretto Paolo Antonio Rolli): final chorus ‘Quando pena la costanza’ from Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of nine staves. No tempo direction. Headed ‘Coro’ (f. 1r) and with ‘Fine dell’ Opera à Londres ce 28 de Novembre 1721’ at the end (f. 4r). Part of Handel’s composition score of the opera. The discovery of this hitherto missing conclusion to the c...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

80. Zweig MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 38
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Oratorio ‘Joseph and his Brethren’ (words James Miller, after the book of Genesis), 1743: recitative ‘With Songs of ardent gratitude, and Praise’
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. Headed ‘Joseph’ in the upper margin, the music followed by ‘Segue il Coro Alleluja we will rejoice’, and with ‘Fine dell oratio. [sic] Joseph’ in the lower margin. Joseph and his Brethren wa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743-1744
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)