Rinaldo [Arie dell'opera di Rinaldo / composta dal Signor Hendel, Maestro di Capella di Sua Altezza Elettorale d'Hannover]
Composer:
Handel, George Frideric
Tasso, Torquato,
Librettist:
Rossi, Giacomo,
Italian
Contains the overture, arias (with the addition of "Scorta rea di cieco Amore" HWV 7a Anhang), duets and final chorus. The March and Battaglia in Act 3 and all recitatives are omitted.
Accompaniment with figured bass and up to 3 additional lines of accompaniment throughout, some instrumentation is omitted.
Libretto by Giacomo Rossi.
HWV 7a.
"A table of songs" -- preliminary page [3], with bookseller's note at the foot of the page: "Note there are reprinted the opera's of Hydaspes ... Roseamond ..."
First performed on 24 February 1711 at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
Singers named in caption titles of the individual arias: Sigra. Boschi (that is, F. Vanini) (also called Signra. Boscchi), Sigra. Isabella (Girardeau), Sigr. Nicolini (Grimaldi), Signr. Valentini (Valentino Urbani), Sigr. Boschi (also called Signr. Boscchi), Sigra. Piloti (also called Signra. Pilotti), and Sigr. Cassani.
Italian words.
Staff notation.
Founder's bequest, 1816. Inscribed on page 1: "R. Fitzwilliam, 1767".
Received stab stitched in paper covers. Bound in quarter Morocco leather Cockerell paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery in March, 1981.
Lacking title page.
Former shelf numbers: 31.F.21 & x.2.61(c
1 condensed score ([4], 67 pages) ; 37 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
Production date: AD 1711 : London] : [Printed for J. Walsh, Servant in Ordinary to her Britanick Majesty, at ye Harp & Hoboy in Katherine Street near Somerset House in ye Strand : & J. Hare at ye Viol & Flute in Cornhill near the Royall Exchange,] [1711]
Accession number: MU.388.C
Primary reference Number: 278747
ALMA control 001: 991006421326403606
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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