Music and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts
Music and Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts
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November 30, 02:25 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 800 GBP
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Handel, George Frideric
Songs selected from the oratorios
Handel's Songs Selected from His Oratorios. For the Harpsichord, Voice, Hoboy, or German Flute...Vol. I [...II ['I' altered to 'II' in manuscript]...III ['I' altered to 'II' in manuscript]] [vocal scores] [RISM H 1075], London: Walsh, [c.1755]
Smith no.17, three oblong folio volumes containing 240 songs, 1-170, 172-332, 334-498 pages (c.22 x 31cm), engraved throughout, stamp of Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club to title-pages, bookplate of Philip Joseph Salomons to front pastedowns, green morocco label gilt to upper covers ("Philip Joseph Salomons"), nineteenth-century green half calf, some covers detached
together with the separately issued instrumental parts in four volumes:
Handel's Songs Selected from His Latest Oratorios for Concerts: For Violins &c. in Six Parts, London: Walsh, no date
four volumes, 171 (violino primo), 159 (violino secondo), 62 (viola), 181 (basso) pages, folio (30.2 x 22.5cm), other instrumental parts distributed throughout the four volumes, the majority still folded and attached, presumably as issued, engraved throughout, stamp of Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club to title-pages, bookplate of Philip Joseph Salomons to front pastedowns, green morocco label gilt to upper covers ("Philip Joseph Salomons"), bindings worn, two upper covers detached
The owner of these scores and parts, Philip Joseph Salomons (1797-1866) was a gifted amateur double bass player (and a pupil of Dragonetti). Rossini composed his Duetto for cello and double bass for Salomons during his trip to London in 1824.