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

21. R.M.20.b.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.10
Title:
Scope & Content:
G.F. Handel: Ottone II (dramma per musica after a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino) (HWV 15); 1722. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXVI). Detached fragments. The MS. contains sections from the first autograph, some of them rejected before the first performance, and material related to ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 item

22. R.M.20.b.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.11
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Partenope (dramma per musica after a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia), HWV 27. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Versions A in H-G. are in the MS. ff. 4v, 19v, 24v, 74v, 75v, 79v, 84v-85 and 103v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 5. Act I, sc. 1. The passage in dotted brackets (H-G., p. 5) is in the MS. At the end of Partenope’s recitative the following stage-direction is ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1730
Extent:
1 volume (105 folios)

23. R.M.20.b.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Il Pastor Fido (opera seria by Giacomo Rossi after the ‘tragicommedia pastorale’ by Battista Guarini), HWV 8. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The MS. contains fragments only. Between ff. 5 and 6 and after f. 34 are leaves ruled with staves, but otherwise blank; ff. 1v, 30v, 31v and 33v re ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. ff. 1-3v. Act I, sc. 6 (?5 in the MS.). ‘Ah! che sperai’, recitative; ‘Segue l’aria Di ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1712
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

24. R.M.20.b.13

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.13
Title:
G.F. Handel: Poro (dramma per musica after a libretto by Pietro Metastasio) (HWV 28); 1730, 1731. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXXIX).
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Between ff. 33 and 34 is a leaf ruled with staves, but otherwise blank; ff. 17v, 24v, 32v and 50v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also R.M.20.d.2. (ff. 26-27); for selections see R.M.19.a.5. (ff. 40-50), R.M.19.d.11. (ff. 149-152). See also Donald Burrows...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1730-1731
Extent:
1 item

25. R.M.20.c.1

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.1
Title:
G.F. Handel: Radamisto (opera seria after libretti by Matteo Noris and Domenico Lalli) (HWV 12); 1720. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXIII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/9.1, 1997.)
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. In Acts I and II the MS. agrees with Version A in H-G. The recitatives in Act II, sc. 1 and 2 (H-G., pp. 40-42) are on ff. 65 and 45. The arrangement of the MS for Act III is as follows: ff. 81-83 (HG., pp. 168-175); ff. 83v-84 (H-G., p. 191-192); ff. 85-115 (H-G., pp. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1720
Extent:
1 item

26. R.M.20.c.2

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.2
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Riccardo Primo (melodramma by Paolo Antonio Rolli, after a libretto by Francesco Briani), HWV 23. Autograph
Scope & Content:
A leaf with Nicolai’s annotations indicated as f. i was removed during recent conservation. ff. 23v, 38v, 39v, 43v, 75v, 79v, 115v, 124v, 137v and 144 are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. ff. 10-12v. A cancelled Scene 2 of Act I, differing both in words and music from...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1727
Extent:
1 volume (146 folios)

27. R.M.20.c.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Rodelinda (dramma per musica by Niccolò Francesco Haym after a libretto by Antonio Salvi), HWV 19. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. i is a note by F. Nicolai. ff. 19v, 22v, 49v, 59v, 64v and 66v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 6. Act I, sc. 6 (H-G., p. 7). The passage in dotted brackets is in the MS. 2. f. 17v. Sc. 6. The end of Bertarido’s recitative (from ‘che non è’, H-G., p.21, lin...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1725
Extent:
1 volume (i + 97 folios)

28. R.M.20.c.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.6
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Scipione (dramma per musica by Paolo Antonio Rolli), HWV 20. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. i, bound at end, is a note in the hand of F. Nicolai. ff. 11v and 31v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 10. Act I, sc. 1. ‘Un caro amante’. A cut of two pages hads been made between H-G., p. 13, line 2, bars 3 and 4. 2. f. 17. ‘Libera chi non è’, aria (H-G.,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1726
Extent:
1 volume (i + 101 folios)

29. R.M.20.c.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.7
Title:
G.F. Handel: Serse (dramma per musica after libretti by Niccolò Minato and Silvio Stampiglia) (HWV 40); 1737-1738. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft XCII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/39, 1958). ff. 22v, 35v, 54v and 91v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For an harpsichord version of the Overture see R.M.19.a.1. (ff. 144v-147). See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of H...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1737-1738
Extent:
1 item

30. R.M.20.c.8

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.8
Title:
G.F. Handel: Silla (dramma per musica by Giacomo Rossi) (HWV 10); [1714]. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXI). Fragments of the score. f. 15v is ruled with staves but otherwise blank. For other copies see R.M.19.d.7. and Add. MSS 31555 and 53341. See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1714]
Extent:
1 item