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Oreste. Selections: MU.MS.798.f.64

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Oreste. Selections
Additional Songs in Orestes / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Scribe: Handel copyist S5

Categories

Description

For voice and orchestra.
Caption title.
Manuscript in the hand of Larsen's Handel copyist S5.
Originally paginated 49-59.
Watermark: "WR" below Fleur de lis in crowned shield / "I VILLEDARY"
Copied ca.1736-1741 (see D. Burrows).
Part of the third section of MU.MS.798 (Barrett-Lennard volume 10).
Contents:
[f. 64] Pensieri voi mi tormentate : [S, ob, vl, b : HWV A11, no. 1 (from HWV 6 no. 35)] -- [f. 65] O tu del gran Tonante : [recitativo : S, bc] -- Ma to non m'odi : recitativeo accompagnato : S, vl1, vl2, vla, b : HWV A11 no. 2] -- [f. 66] Bella calma sento all'alma : Larghetto : [S (Iphigenia), b : HWV A11 no. 3] -- [f. 66] Si venite, io vi affento : [recitativo] accomp. : [S (Oreste), vla, vl2, vla, b : HWV A11 no. 15] -- [f. 66v] Sento nell'alma un tenero amor : [S (Iphigenia), vl1, vl2, vla, b : HWV A11, no. 21] -- [f. 68] Balli : [vl, vla, b : HWV A11, no. 11] -- [f. 68v] [Untitled : vl, vla, b : HWV A11, no. 13] -- [f. 69] [Menuet : vl, b : HWV A11, no. 39]

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (f. 64-69) ; 44 cm.

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Dating

Circa 1736 - Circa 1741

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.798.f.64
Primary reference Number: 279132
ALMA control 001: 994729893803606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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