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R.M.20.b.10
- Record Id:
- 040-001948631
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x000379
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156353267.0x000001
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- R.M.20.b.10
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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 the revivals of 1723 and 1726. Some missing parts of this MS. and of R.M.20.b.9. are in Cambridge, Fitzwilliams MSS Nos 256, 265. ff. 2v, 15v, 16v, 18v, 22v, 23v and 25v are ruled with staves but otherwise blank. See also R.M.20.b.9.; for copies see Eg. 2918, Add. MSS 31571, 31572, 33238; for selections see R.M.18.c.6. (ff. 11-14), R.M.18.c.10. (ff. 3-9), R.M.18.b.4. (ff. 41-42). See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), p. 47.
ff. 28. 9.25 x 11.75in.
Points of note:
1. ff. 1-2. Act I, sc. 2. ‘Cara tu nel mio petto’. Air. (H-G., p. 134).
2. ff. 3-4. Sc. 5. [‘Cervo altier’]. Beginning at ‘Corre lieto’ (H-G., p. 125, line 3, bar 3), marked ‘Piano’.
3. f. 5. ‘Ritorna o dolce amore’. Air. (H-G., p. 30).
4. ff. 6-7. ‘Vinto è l’amore’. Air. (H-G., p. 128).
5. ff. 8-9. ‘Io sperai trovar’, marked ‘Larghetto staccato’. Air. (H-G., p. 132). Line 5, bar 3 is marked ‘Forte’; also p. 133, line 2, bar 7.
6. ff. 10-11. Act II, sc. 5. ‘Spera si mi dice’. Air (H-G., p. 138). Marked ‘Andante’.
7. f. 12-15. Sc. 8. ‘S’or mi dai pene’. Air (S.). Not in H-G.
8. f. 16. ‘S’io dir potessi’. The first bars only, slightly differing from H-G., p. 70.
9. ff. 17-18. Act III, sc. 3. ‘D’innalzar i flutti’. ‘Slightly differing from H-G., p. 96, which has ‘inalzar’.
10. f. 19. Sc. 5. ‘Qual cervetta’. Air. (H-G., p. 100).
11. ff. 20-22. Sc. 6. ‘Ben che mi sia crudele’. Air. (H-G., p. 104).
12. f. 23. A discarded 1-bar fragment related to music on f. 21.
13. f. 24. ‘Sc. 7. The opening recitatives. (H-G., p. 106).
14. f. 25. ‘Pur cangiasti’, recitative. (H-G., p. 109).
15. f. 26. ‘Gode l’alma’ (H-G., p. 110). Part of a different setting not in H-G.
16. ff. 27-28. ‘Gode l’alma’ (H-G., p. 110).
Nicola Francesco Haym, composer, poet and theatre manager: Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, librettist and poet: Selections from Handel's 'Ottone' to a libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, after a text by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino: 1722-circa 1735: Ital.
George Frideric Handel, composer: Music manuscripts: 18th cent: Autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
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- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
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- 032-001948397
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- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.20.b.10 : G.F. Handel: Ottone II (dramma per musica after a libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino) (HWV 15); 1722. Autograph.… - Hierarchy:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1722
- End Date:
- 1722
- Date Range:
- 1722
- Era:
- CE
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