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

41. 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

42. 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)

43. 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

44. 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)

45. 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

46. R.M.20.c.10

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.10
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Sosarme (‘dramma per musica’ after a libretto by Antonio Salvi), HWV 30. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The libretto was originally called ‘Fernando Re di Castiglia’, and the action took place at Coimbra. The first two acts were set to this book, but the names were then changed. The opera became ‘Sosarme Re di Media’, the action laid at ‘Sardi’, Fernando became ‘Sosarme; Alfonso – Argone; Sancio –...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1732
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)

47. R.M.20.a.6

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.6
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Arianna (dramma per musica after a libretto by Pietro Pariati), HWV 32. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 24v, 82v and 84v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 3v. Act I. The stage directions for scene 1 precede the Minuet (marked Andante). 2. f. 22v. Sc. 11. The last words of Arianna’s recitative (‘mi compiaci…tu taci’) are on f. 57. 3. f. 29. Sc. 12. The ‘Balli...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1733
Extent:
1 volume (84 folios)

48. R.M.20.a.7

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.7
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Ariodante (dramma per musica after a libretto by Antonio Salvi), HWV 33. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The recitative ‘Ah che questo’ and air ‘Il primo ardor’ (Act I, sc. 11; H-G., pp. 48-50) and the King’s air ‘Più contento’ (Act II, sc. 6, H-G., p. 82) are not present in this MS. ff. 7v, 24, 62v, 72v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. Overture. At the foot of...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1734
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

49. R.M.20.a.4

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.4
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Alcina (dramma per musica after a libretto by Antonio Fanzaglia), HWV 34. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The text and clefs of some of the recitatives are in the handwriting of a copyst. Some of the Balli, who are missing from this MS, are in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS. 30 H 8, pp. 1-8. ff. 21v and 36v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 12v. Act I. At the end...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1735
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)

50. 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)