Passione di Gesú Cristo: MU.MS.125

Titles

Passione di Gesú Cristo
La passione di Nostro Signore Gesú Cristo : Oratorio : à 4. voci con stromenti / Del sig:re Niccolò Jommelli.

Maker(s)

Composer: Jommelli, Nicolò,
Donor.: Cockerell Bindery

Categories

• Manuscript (music)

Description

For solo voices (SATB), chorus (SATB) and orchestra [ob1, ob2, cor1, cor2, vl1, vl2, vla, b]
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio.
Copyist manuscript in ink.
Paper: 10 staves (177x250mm), watermark: animal in circle.
Paper (volume 1, leaves 97-96) : 12 staves (174x255mm), watermark: animal in circle.
Former classmark: 32 E 2-3.
Bound in quarter vellum with grey card sides. Volume 1 has been rebound in quarter morocco, marbled paper sides with vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery, DC 6762, July 1984; the original sides have been retained in place, and the vellum spine preserved inside back cover. Volume 2 is in its original binding.
1.1.1 vl1 [Sinfonia] Adagio assai e staccato Eb G-2 bBEA c 6''E/4E8.(-)6G4G8.(-)6B/4B(-)'A(-)/G(-){8F6-F}{8''C6-'A}/

Notes

History note: Ownership inscription: 'Emma Jane Greenland'.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1836) by Hooker, Emma Jane

Dating

Production date: ca. AD 1750 : [Rome?],[approximately 1750]

Note

Jommelli, Nicolò,1714-1774 Hooker, Emma Jane, donor. Cockerell Bindery.