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Alessandro Severo. Ouverture: MU.MS.798.f.162

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Alessandro Severo. Ouverture
Alessandro Severo : Ouverture / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Scribe: Handel copyist S5

Categories

Description

For orchestra (ob1, ob2, vl1, vl2, vl2, vla, vlc/bc).
Caption title.
Thematic catalogue no. HWV A13, Ouverture.
Manuscript in the hand of Larsen's Handel copyist S5.
Originally paginated 246-251.
Watermark: "WR" below Fleur de lis in crowned shield / "I VILLEDARY"
Copied ca. 1738-1741 (see D. Burrows).
Part of the third section of MU.MS.798 (Barrett-Lennard volume 10).

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (f. 162-165v) ; 44 cm.

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Dating

Production date: circa AD 1740 : [England],[ca. 1740]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.798.f.162
Primary reference Number: 279138
ALMA control 001: 994731083803606

Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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