Messiah : copyist's manuscript, 1743-1746
Messiah
Handel, George Frideric
1685-1759
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.
notated music
enk
1743
1746
monographic
eng
print
1 ms. score (3 v. (459 p.)) ; 23 x 29.5 cm
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.English (naturalized) composer of German birth.William Hayes; Robert Smith; Otto Goldschmidt."Messiah an Oratorio."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.
Oratorios
Scores
1743-1746
England
London
Cary Catalogue,
no. 122
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