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Concerto salmigondis (Sketches): MU.MS.1491

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Concerto salmigondis (Sketches)
[Sketches for Concerto salmigondis] / [Kenneth Hesketh]

Maker(s)

Composer: Hesketh, Kenneth
Handel, George Frideric

Categories

Description

Editorial title.
The third movement is 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.
Holograph manuscript in pencil.
Paper: 14 staves (282x223mm), maker's name: "Casa Brandes / Espaderos 529, Lima" [Peruvian paper brought to Britain by the composer's wife Arlene Sierra]
Received unbound.
Contents:
[leaf 1] Concerto salmagondis (pasticcio synonym). I - Intrada -- [leaf 2] [Three titled fragments] III. Leggiero (the Charming Brute). ("I am myself alone") : the inscription found at the bottom of Goupy's painting [of George Frederic Handel] ; IV, Musette ; V, Hop Jig [with arrows indicating] reference to Handel Carillon. -- [leaf 3] (The Charming Brite - K.H. / Carillon - G.F.H.) - one of a number of presentations & distortions of the Carillon part in the Fitz collection. [On the reverse is an outline of the 5 movements with indications of links between them, and sources of the music, e.g. "use sketches form 1st symphony (1983) / Little, little suite (2014)] -- [leaf 4] Capriccio [for keyboard?] [unclear if this is related to the Concerto salmigondis]

Notes

History note: Presented by the composer, 2016.

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (4 leaves) ; 12-33 cm.

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Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 2015-09 : [London?],[September, 2015]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.1491
Primary reference Number: 278912
ALMA control 001: 995381083803606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Thursday 28 January 2021 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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