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R.M.20.f.2
- Record Id:
- 040-001948673
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001948397
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000293.0x0003a3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100156353133.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- R.M.20.f.2
- Title:
- George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56. Autograph manuscript
- Scope & Content:
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Handel's working compositional manuscript of his oratorio Messiah, in which he set words by Charles Jennens after texts from the Bible. According to the dates added by Handel to the manuscript, the music was largely written between 22 August and 14 September 1741. There are many corrections and amendments in the score, made both while Handel was composing the work and before and after the first performance.
Some points of note:
1. f. 16. A cut is marked in pencil at the beginning of the second line. No ending is marked for the cut.
2. f. 21. This leaf is not in Handel’s writing. It has been copied to replace the large blots on f. 22 and afterwards pasted down on f. 22.
3. f. 90. The last bar of line 2 is crossed out in pencil.
4. f. 99v. The words at the bottom of the page are: ‘Da capo dal Seg[no] il Ritornello e si scriva’.
5. ff. 100-106. Hallelujah chorus.
6. f. 133. Line six. Some illegible pencil writings is in the MS. under the words ‘How beautiful…that’. [‘Mrs Savage’]
7. f. 138v. ‘Mr Beard’ is crossed out in pencil.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Music Library Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001948397
040-001948673 - Is part of:
- R.M. : Royal Music Library Manuscripts
R.M.20.f.2 : George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56. Autograph manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-001948397[0239]/040-001948673
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: R.M.
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (i + 140 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100156353133.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1741
- End Date:
- 1741
- Date Range:
- 1741
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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9.25 x 11.75 inches
- Appraisal:
- A print of the exterior of the Fishamble Street Music Hall was inserted at the end, but was removed in 1951 with the Principal Keeper’s permission as being late 19th century.
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=R.M.20.f.2
- Publications:
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Händel-Gesellschaft XLV and Facsimile; Hallische Händel-Ausgabe I/17, 1965. This MS. has been twice reproduced in facsimile: (1) by the Sacred Harmonic Society in 1868; (2) by Dr. F. Chrysander in 1889-1892. The references below are to the latter. The MS. consists of: ff. 1-132- a blank leaf. (Facsimile, pp. 1-262). ff. 133-138. (Facsimile, pp. 310-321). ff. 139-140 (Facsimile, pp. 322-325). See also Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel’s Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), pp. 136-138.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)