IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 278776 accession number: MU.522 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 updated: Tuesday 16 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Contains the overture, all the arias, duets and final chorus, with the following variants: 7a, 27a. Omits the sinfonie, all the recitatives. HWV 28. "A table of songs" -- preliminary page [3], with bookseller's advertisement at foot of page: "The following works of Mr. Handel's printed fro I. Walsh ..." First performed on 2 February 1731, at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, in London. Imprint date from Smith. Text is an altered version of Metastasio's Alessandro nell'Indie. Cf. Loewenberg. Annals of opera. Also known by titles: Triumph der Grossmuth and Treue; Cleofida, Koenigin von Indien; Apollo festeggiante. Possibly received unbound. Bound in yellow ochre buckram by "J.S. Wilson & Son, Cambridge" 192-?. Former shelf numbers: 31.F.20a. title: MU.522 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/278776 CATEGORIES ------ category: printed music DATING ------ creation date: 1731 - 1731 creation date earliest: 1731 creation date latest: 1731 CREATORS -------- maker: Handel, George Frideric maker: Metastasio, Pietro, maker: J.S. Wilson and Son, DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 1 score ([5], 2-82 pages) ; 39 cm.