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Egerton MS 3146
- Record Id:
- 032-001985285
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001985285
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x0003a1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 3146
- Title:
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'LA CLEMENZA DI TITO': opera, in three acts, by Giuseppe Scarlatti. Possibly autograph (see below). In score, with accompaniments for oboes, violins, horns, trumpets, viola and bass. The present MS. bears no title and is anonymous; the identity of the work has been established by H. Springer, 'Das Partiturautograph von Giuseppe Scarlatti's bisher verschollener Clemenza di Tito', Beiträge zum Bibliotheks- und Buchwesen. Paul Schwenke zum 20 Marz 1913 gewidmet, 1913, pp. 257-60 (an offprint is MSS. Deptl. Pamphlet 1519), by comparison with two arias from the same opera (Berlin, former Prussian State Library MSS. Mus. 126, 128) attributed to Giuseppe Scarlatti. Apparently unpublished. The libretto is by Pietro Metastasio and was first set to music by Antonio Caldara in 1734; Springer traced fifteen different settings. A printed libretto in the Library of St Mark's, Venice, which also attributes the music to Giuseppe Scarlatti, states that the opera was first performed at the Teatro Grimani di San Benedetto at Venice in the Carnival of 1760 (Springer, op. cit., pp. 2-3). In Act 1 the arias from scenes 4 and 6, the whole of scenes 7 and 8, and the beginning of scene 9 are missing and in Act III, the final chorus. Stubs at ff. 36, 69, 79, 80, 152 suggest that revisions have been made to the score at these points and the discarded portions removed; nothing of significance appears to be missing. Springer bases his claim that the present MS. is autograph on revisions to the extant portion of the text and on his comparison of the MS. 'mit beglaubigten Originalhandschriften' which he does not, however, name; these may have included the manuscripts at Berlin and Vienna described as autograph in R. Eitner, Quellen-Lexikon, viii, p. 461. The recitative and aria by Giuseppe Scarlatti in Add. MS. 31624, ff. 177-191b, described by A. Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, ii, 1908, p. 272, as 'Possibly autograph', are not in the same hand as the present MS. Paper; ff. 190. Oblong quarto. Bef. A.D. 1760. Belonged to Hermann Springer of Berlin.
- Scope & Content:
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Giuseppe Scarlatti, composer: Opera, 'La Clemenza di Tito': bef. 1760.: Autogr.(?).
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001985285
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001985285
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1760
- Date Range:
- before 1760
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
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Hermann Springer, musicologist, of Berlin: Owned: in 1913.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Scarlatti, Giuseppe, composer
Springer, Hermann, musicologist, of Berlin