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Concerto salmigondis. Leggiero (The charming brute): MU.MS.1490

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Concerto salmigondis. Leggiero (The charming brute)
III. Leggiero (The Charming Brute) / [Kenneth Hesketh]

Maker(s)

Composer: Hesketh, Kenneth
Handel, George Frideric

Categories

Description

Short score, with indications of instrumentation.
Caption title.
The third movement of Kenneth Hesketh's Concerto salmigondis, based on the "Carillon" part for the chorus "Or let the merry bells ring round" from Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Fitzwilliam Museum manuscript MU.MS.265, pages 38-39.
"I am myself alone" -- note at the end (from the inscription at the foot of Joseph Goupy's caricature portrait of Handel playing the organ, entitled 'The charming brute').
Holograph manuscript in pencil.
Paper: 18 staves (252x375mm), no maker's name (glued along the top edge).
The damage at the bottom right corner of the paper was caused by the composer's cockactoo (Claudius).
Received unbound.

Notes

History note: Presented by the composer, 2016.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. short score (7 leaves) ; 30 x 42 cm.

At the moment, this record does not display units or type of measurements. We will rectify this as soon as possible.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Hesketh, Kenneth

Dating

Production date: AD 2015-12 : [London?],[December, 2015]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.1490
Primary reference Number: 278908
ALMA control 001: 995381173803606

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Thursday 28 January 2021

Associated departments & institutions

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

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