Amadigi di Gaula: MU.MS.75

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Amadigi di Gaula
Amadigi : Opera / [George Frideric Handel].

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Librettist: Rossi, Giacomo,
La Motte, M. de (Antoine Houdar)

Categories

Manuscript (music)

Description

Opera in 3 Acts.
Characters: Oriana (S), Melissa (S), Orgando (S), Amadigi (S), Dardano (A), Chorus (SATB).
Libretto probably by Giacomo Rossi after Antoine Houdar de la Motte.
Caption title.
Thematic cat. no.: HWV 11.
Contains variants 1a not 1b; 12a not 12b.
Copyist manuscript in ink (same hand as MU.MS.74)
Paper: 20 staves (306x193mm); watermark: "GR" below fleur de lis in crowned shield; countermark: "J WHATMAN"
Former classmark: 31.F.10.
Probably received unbound or in grey paper covers (see MU.MS.73). Bound in dark blue calf with marbled paper sides in the 19th century.
Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on leaf 1: "R. Fitzwilliam 1767".

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (80 leaves, bound) ; 35 cm.

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

Production date: circa AD 1760 : [England],[approximately 1760]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.75
Primary reference Number: 278754
ALMA control 001: 99542343803606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Monday 8 February 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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