Tolomeo, et Alessandro . o'vero La corona disprezzata / Poesia del Sig(r): Carlo Sigism(do): Capeci / Musica del Sig(r): Domenico Scarlatti. [Manuscript full score].
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
c. 1713 - c. 1724
Materials
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3019604
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 vols. (256,252,200]p. . music . oblong 4to. Manuscript unlikely to be Scarlatti's autograph; does not correspond to hand in various facsimiles of his works; possibly an English hand. Only known manuscript of the music for Acts 2 & 3 (libretto known). First performed 1710, revived 1713 and 1724. Provenance: Bookplates: John Brownlowe, viscount Tyrconnel; Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Binding: Panelled calf (eighteenth-century).
Makers and roles
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Carlo Sigismondo Capeci (1652 - 1728)