Record ID:
115317
Accession number:
Cary 40
Creator:
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
Biographical Data:
English (naturalized) composer of German birth.
Title:
Messiah : copyist's manuscript, 1743-1746.
Uniform title:
Messiah
Date:
1743-1746.
Inscription/Markings:
"Messiah an Oratorio."
Notes:
Ms., probably from ca. 1743-46, in the hand of two copyists designated S1 and S5 by Jens Peter Larsen in Handel's Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1957); later additions are in the hand of William Hayes.
Full score.
Libretto assembled by Jennens.
Provenance:
William Hayes; Robert Smith; Otto Goldschmidt.
Associated names:
Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773, librettist.
Hayes, William, 1708-1777, former owner.
Smith, Robert, former owner.
Goldschmidt, Otto, 1829-1907, former owner.
Cary, Mary Flagler, former owner.
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