Airs, harpsichord, HWV 474, G major O the Pleasures of the Plains : Full / [George Frideric Handel]
Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Air in G based on the chorus in Acis and Galatea (HWV 49a, no. 1)
For keyboard (harpsichord or organ?)
Title probably added by Handel.
Holograph manuscript in ink.
"This is evidently the first thought for the Chorus "O the pleasures / of the plains" which Handel afterwards transposed into the / key of B flat -- & amplified into a most elaborate & / masterly piece of Counterpoint" -- pencil note in later hand.
Watermark: "LVG" below fleur de lis in crowned shield ; countermark: "IV" (Burrows C*70)
1.1.1 hpcd Andante allegro G xF c {8''GDEC}{'BG}4-/{8GDEC}{,B'G}{6GABG}/
1 ms. score (p. 7) ; 23 x 29 cm.
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Production date: AD 1736 : [England],[1736?]
Accession number: MU.MS.256.p.7
Primary reference Number: 276895
ALMA control 001: 994611853803606
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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