Six concertos for the harpsicord or organ
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Category
Books
Date
1765
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3165484.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], [1], 2-48 p.. music ;. fol. Bound with Handel’s ‘Musick for the royal fireworks’ (1749). In red pencil, at head of title page: ‘5th Concerto’, and at head of p.39: ‘5th’. Some fingerings and other notes inserted in ink. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 1st state- bold text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter leather, marbled paper sides. Titles on red leather labels: (front board): 'Handel's Fire Works'; (back board) 'Handel's Concertos Coronation Anthems'.
Makers and roles
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) John Walsh (1709 - 1766)