Six favourite overtures in 8 parts from the late Italian operas perform'd at the Hay Market : for violins, hoboys & French horns with a bass for the harpsicord and violoncello.
Guiseppe Agus
Category
Books
Date
1763
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3258872.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
Violino primo ; fol. No ownership marks. Binding: Stitched, all except viola part in paper wrapper with in ms title, opus number and name of instrument on front cover. Stored with other scores. Provenance: Nineteenth-century small armorial bookplate: Calke Abbey library [associated with Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795-1844)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full diced blue cloth folder, blind panel on boards, gilt lettering on upper board. Paper ms spine label; paper ms label on the inside of upper board. Decorative insides.
Makers and roles
Guiseppe Agus, engraver and publisher Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782), composer Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) Nicolò Jommelli (1714-1774) Gioacchino Cocchi (b.c.1720) Karl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759)