Search

Project / Collection Royal Music Library Manuscripts Language Italian

81. R.M.20.b.9

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.b.9
Title:
G.F. Handel: Ottone I (dramma per musica after a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino) (HWV 15); 1722. Autograph. (Händel-Gesellschaft LXVI).
Scope & Content:
Some missing parts of this MS. and of R.M.20.b.10. are in Fitzwilliams MSS Nos 256, 265. Between ff. 14 and 15 is a leaf ruled with staves, but otherwise blank, not foliated; ff. 21v, 48v, 52v 77v and 78v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also R.M.20.b.10.; for copies see Eg. 2918, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1722
Extent:
1 item

82. 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

83. 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)

84. 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)

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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)

88. R.M.20.c.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.3
Title:
G.F. Handel: Rinaldo (opera seria by Giacomo Rossi after a scenario by Aaron Hill) (HWV 7); [1711, 1731]. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. (Händel-Gesellschaft LVIII; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/4.1 and 4.2, 1993 and 1996). Fragments of the 1711 (A) and 1731 (B) versions. ff. 54v and f. ii (at end) are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also RM.19.d.5., a copy of the 1711 version with numerous autogr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1711-1731
Extent:
1 item

89. 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)

90. R.M.20.c.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.c.5
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Rodrigo (dramma per musica after a libretto by Francesco Silvani), HWV 5. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. i is a note in the hand of F. Nicolai. ff. 14v, 85v and 104v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. Points of note: 1. f. 1. Overture ‘di G. F. Hendel’[sic]. 2. ff. 4-6. The ‘Matelot’ (f. 4), marked ‘3’, so as to follow the ‘Sarabande’ (f. 5) (marked ‘2’). The ‘Menuet’ (f. 6v) is mark...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1707?]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 106 folios)