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1. MS Mus. 1587

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MS Mus. 1587
Title:
MS Mus. 1587. George Frideric Handel: Keyboard music; between circa 1717 and 1775. Sonatas, suites and other works for keyboard instrument by Handel and other composers. Copy in ink. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1-52r) was made by the copyist RM1 in about 1717. (For copyists, see J. P. Larsen: Handel’s Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1957)). This is apparently the earliest surviving English copy of Handel’s keyboard music. In this part of the ma...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-46 James Stevens, composer and pianist: 'Concertetto concitato', for piano and orchestra: circa 1960: Photocopy. ff. 1-52r. George Frideric Handel, composer: Keyboard suites, HWV 426-432, 434, 438. Not all complete, and some with additional movements from HWV 8, 428, 442, 495, 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1712-1775
Extent:
1 item

2. MS Mus. 1769

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1769
Title:
Benjamin Britten: Music for the film Instruments of the Orchestra, later published as The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations on a theme of Purcell), op. 34. Autograph draft
Scope & Content:
Draft score. The music was originally composed for the film Instruments of the Orchestra (1946). No earlier sketches are known to survive, and it seems that Britten composed the piece directly into the present draft score. The title-page bears Britten's signature and the words 'Orchestral Film' ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945
Extent:
1 volume (15 folios)

3. MS Mus. 1787

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1787
Title:
Johann Christian Bach: ‘Figli addio’, aria from Carattaco, Warburton G7/21b, for soprano, 2 violins, viola and cello
Scope & Content:
Copyist’s score, in ink. The opera seria Carattaco (words, Giovan Gualberto Bottarelli) was first performed at the King’s Theatre, London on 14 February 1767. The present version of the aria differs in its scoring from the version preserved in J.C. Bach’s autograph score (Conservatoire royal de B...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1767
Extent:

1 volume (3 folios)