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Instrumental music. Selections: MU.MS.798.f.158

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Instrumental music. Selections
Sinfonie Diverse / [George Frideric Handel]

Maker(s)

Composer: Handel, George Frideric
Scribe: Smith, John Christopher (sen)

Categories

Description

Caption title, in 19th-century pencil.
Manuscript in an unidentified hand (leaf 158v) and the hand of John Christopher Smith, 1683 -1763 (leaves 159-161v)
Originally paginated 235-244.
Watermark: "LVG" below Fleur de lis in crowned shield / "IV"
Copied ca.1736-1741 (see D. Burrows).
Part of the third section of MU.MS.798 (Barrett-Lennard volume 10).
Contents:
[f. 158v] Allegro [in G major] : [vl1, vl2, b : HWV 340] -- [f. 158v] Minuet [in G major] : [treble, b : HWV 515b] -- [f. 159] [Gavotte in D major] : Allegro : [vl1, vl2, b : HWV 397, no. 6] -- [f. 159] Largo : Ex G : [cor1, cor2, vl1/ob1, vl2/ob2, vla, b : HWV 73, first section of the Ouverture (A tempo ordinario)] -- [f. 160] Allegro [in E minor : vl1, vl2, b : HWV 398, no. 2B] -- [f. 160v] Menuet [in F major] : [vl1, vl2, b : HWV 401, no. 5B] -- [f. 161] Marche [in D major] : [tr, vl1, vl2, b : HWV 345] -- [f. 161v] Marche [in F major] : [cor1, cor2, ob1, ob2, b : HWV 346]

Measurements and weight

1 ms. score (f. 158v-161v) ; 44 cm.

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Dating

Production date: circa AD 1740 : [England],[ca. 1740]

Identification numbers

Accession number: MU.MS.798.f.158
Primary reference Number: 279137
ALMA control 001: 994730993803606
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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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