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

71. 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)

72. 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)

73. 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)

74. R.M.20.c.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.9
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Siroe (‘dramma per musica’ by Niccolò Francesco Haym after a text by Pietro Metastasio), HWV 24. Autograph
Scope & Content:
ff. 62v, 66v and 75v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1v. The lowest line of the Allegro (H-G, p. 2) is marked: ‘Violonc: Contrabassi Cemb.’ The ‘Introduzione’ (H-G., p.6) is on f. 85, crossed out in ink. 2. f. 11. Act I, sc. 5. ‘D’ogni amator’ (H-G., pp. 16-1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1728
Extent:
1 volume (90 folios)

75. 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)

76. 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)

77. R.M.20.c.12

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.12
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Teseo (‘dramma tragico’ by Niccolò Francesco Haym, after a text by Philippe Quinault), HWV 9. Autograph
Scope & Content:
Fragments of Acts IV and V. ff. 5v and 12v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. ff. 1-3v. Act IV, sc. 1. Recitatives and ‘Voglio straggi [sic]. No ‘Allegro’ is marked (H-G., pp. 69-71). 2. f. 3v. Sc. 2. Recitative (H-G., p. 71) and ‘Benchè tuoni’ ending at p. 73, line...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1712
Extent:
1 volume (16 folios)

78. 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)

79. 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

80. 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