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Messiah : copyist's manuscript, 1743-1746 / [notated music manuscript]
- Title
- Messiah : copyist's manuscript, 1743-1746 [print]
- Uniform Title
- Messiah
- Creator
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
- Librettist.
- Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773
- Former owner.(s)
- Hayes, William, 1708-1777
- Smith, Robert
- Goldschmidt, Otto, 1829-1907
- Cary, Mary Flagler
- Place of Publication/Creation
- Type of Material
- notated music manuscript
- Language
- English
- Form
- Physical Description
- 1 ms. score (3 v. (459 p.)) ; 23 x 29.5 cm
- 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.
- Biographical/historical
- English (naturalized) composer of German birth.
- Ownership
- William Hayes; Robert Smith; Otto Goldschmidt.
- Version identification
- "Messiah an Oratorio."
- Publications
- Watkins Shaw, "An Inaccessible Messiah Manuscript," The Music Review 23 (1962), 109-18.
- Watkins Shaw, A Textual and Historical Companion to Handel's 'Messiah' (London, 1965), p. 79.
- Donald Burrows, "The Autographs and Early Copies of Messiah: Some Further Thoughts," Music & Letters 66 (1985), 201-19 (at p. 204-05).
- Donald Burrows and Watkins Shaw, "Handel's `Messiah': Supplementary Notes on Sources," Music & Letters 76 (1995), 359.
- Subjects
- Oratorios--Scores
- 1743-1746
- England --London
- Identifier
- Cary 40
- Oclc
- ocn655340282
- Bibliographic record
- http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=115317
- Referenced by
- Cary Catalogue, no. 122
- Repository
- Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Music Manuscripts and Books
- Electronic resource
- http://www.themorgan.org/music/manuscript/115317
Last Updated: 11-18-2011