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R.M.20.b.13
- Record Id:
- 040-001948634
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x00037c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156353271.0x000001
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- 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).
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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 and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), pp. 51-52.
ff. 74. 9.5 x 11.5in.
Points of note:
1. ff. 3v-4v. The Overture (ff. 1-3v) is followed by ‘Sinfonia della Scena 11 [Act I, sc. 9] le Corna [sic] di Caccia sul Teatro’, much shortened in pencil (H-G., p. 28).
2. f. 5. Act I, sc.1. ‘Alessandro nelle Indie: Atto I, Scena 1’. Poro’s recitative begins: ‘Fermatevi codardi’ (not ‘compagni’, as in H-G.).
3. ff. 5-10. Throughout the Act the recitatives are written consecutively, with indications of the place of the airs and duet, which follow (ff. 11-32).
4. f. 32. At foot of page: ‘Fine dell’atto primo Mercordi li 23 Decembr 1730’.
5. f. 34. Act II, sc. 1. The stage direction (H-G., p. 40) in the MS. is: ‘Gli Indiani attacano per fianco i Macedoni, che li mettono in fuga subito, e Timagene sparisce nella Folla, non restando sulla scena che Poro ed Alessandro che si battono assieme; Alessandro incalzando Poro sino di dentro la Scena. Al primo attacco degli Indiani Gandarte con una truppa di guastatori va sopra il Ponte, e lo fa diroccare dai due lati che si uniscono alle sponde, poi gettando nel fiume la spada ed il cimiero, si getto lui medesimo nel fiume, seguito da Guastatori’. The recitative for Gandarte in H-G., p. 41 is not in the MS.
6. f. 54v. ‘Fine dell’Atto 2do G. F. Handel Decembr 30, An[n]o 1730’.
7. f. 57v. Act III, sc. 3. Version A (H-G., p. 71) is in the MS.
8. f. 74v. ‘G F Handel Fine dell’Opera di Poro. a Londra gli 16 di Gennaro 1731’.
Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Metastasio, poet and librettist: Handel's 'Poro' , after a text by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Metastasio: 1730-31: Ital.
George Frideric Handel, composer: Music manuscripts: 18th cent: Autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001948397
040-001948634 - Is part of:
- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.20.b.13 : G.F. Handel: Poro (dramma per musica after a libretto by Pietro Metastasio) (HWV 28); 1730, 1731. Autograph.… - Hierarchy:
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- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1730
- End Date:
- 1731
- Date Range:
- 1730-1731
- Era:
- CE
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