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41. R.M.20.e.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.e.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Cantatas VI. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 40 and 41 is a single leaf, ruled with staves but otherwise blank, foliated 40a; ff. 49v and 51v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. 1. ff. 1-6v. ‘Mi palpita il cor’ ‘Cantata a Voce Sola con Oboe’ (HWV 132) (partly printed in H-G. LII B, p. 132-155. The MS. contains the whole Cant...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)

42. 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 lieti...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1705?-1735?]
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

43. R.M.20.a.11

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.11
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Deidamia (melodramma by Paolo Antonio Rolli), HWV 42. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Between ff. 15 and 16, and 76 and 77 are leaves ruled with staves but otherwise blank; ff. 17v, 59v and 78v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 3. Act I, sc. 3. At the bottom of the page: ‘angefangen. [here is the symbol for Monday]. Octobr 27. 1740’. Both sections of th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1740
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)

44. 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. 18v. ‘W...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (35 folios)

45. 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’ not in H-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
1 volume (86 folios)

46. 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 composi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

47. 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 ‘Ritorni o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1723
Extent:
1 volume (i + 154 folios)

48. 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 places f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1736
Extent:
1 volume (91 folios)

49. 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 otherwi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1744
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

50. 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 goder’,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1712
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

51. 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 mio se...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1737
Extent:
1 volume (39 folios)

52. 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 below...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1738-1751
Extent:
1 volume (74 folios)

53. 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. 80)....
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1749
Extent:
1 volume (29 folios)

54. 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 is wanting...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1710-c 1751
Extent:
1 volume (i + 62 folios)

55. 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 lower line (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1751
Extent:
1 volume (136 folios)

56. 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 in the M...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

57. 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 di Overt...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

58. 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 (H-G., p...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1746
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)

59. 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 and amen...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1741
Extent:
1 volume (i + 140 folios)

60. 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, No 6, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1707-c 1745
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)