Current Location: In storage
Titles
Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. These pleasure melancholy give
These pleasure melancholy give : [chorus from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato] ; Dal di ch'io la perdei : Tirinto doppo La mia bella : [recitative from Imeneo] / [George Frideric Handel]
Maker(s)
Composer:
Handel, George Frideric
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Description
Probably a rejected page from the score of L'Allegro, il Penseroso et il Moderato (February 1740), reused for an alternative recitative for the November 1740 performance of Imeneo.
Titles from first lines
Holograph manuscript in ink.
Watermark: Fleur de lis over Strasbourg bend; countermark: "IV" (Burrows B150)
Contents:
[1, p. 33-34, lines 6-10] These pleasure melancholy give : [fragment from the chorus (SATB b, with incomplete text, and lacking orchestration) from L'Allegro (HWV 55, no. 33), continuing from the holograph score, GB Lbl R.M.20.d.5, f. 42] -- [2, p. 34, lines 1-2] Dal di ch'io la perdei : [recitative for Tirinto (S, b) from Imeneo (HWV 41, Atto I Scena I, Recitativo C) ending with a cue for "La mia bella" (HWV 41, no. 1)]
1.2.1 S (Tirinto) Dal di ch'io la perdei C-1 c 4-8-'BBxFFG/4A
Measurements and weight
1 score (p. 33-34) ; 23 x 30 cm.
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Dating
Production date:
AD 1740
: [England],[1740]
Identification numbers
Accession number: MU.MS.258.p.33
Primary reference Number: 276926
ALMA control 001: 994617543803606
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Audit data
Created: Tuesday 1 December 2020
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
