G.F. Handel. Concerti Grossi, Op.3 [HWV 312-317], complete parts, Smith no.5, c.1752

George Frideric Handel

Concerto Grossi Con Due Violini e Violoncello di Concertino Obligati e Due Altri Violini Viola e Basso di Concerto Grosso Ad Arbitrio...Opera Terza [parts] [HWV 312-317], London: J. Walsh, [c.1752]

Smith no.5, complete nine parts, 23, 17, 13, 13, 18, 18, 11, 4, 4 pages, folio (31.6 x 23.7cm), engraved throughout, a few contemporary annotations ("...Handel Op:^a 3:^a..."), Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark ("II D 23, 1 [...9]") to each part, manuscript Dolmetsch Library label to spines, disbound 

RARE. The celebrated Op.3 concerti grossi of Handel, first published by Walsh in 1734, contain some of the composer's finest and most arresting instrumental music.

LITERATURE:

RISM H 1242

PROVENANCE:

From the collection of Arnold Dolmetsch