O praise the Lord
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: O praise the Lord
Other titles: Chandos anthems
Classmark: Manuscripts BC MS Mendelssohn/Scores 7
Creator(s): Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
Additional creator(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847) (Other)
Related people: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
Date(s): 1836
Size and medium: 1 manuscript score ([8] p. on 4 leaves, bound)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/375724
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002782549705181
Description
Title from Wehner, p. 362.
Interleaved with protective paper.
Has headings: "No. 2. Aria Violini und Baβi... Partitur pag. 22"; "No. 6 Aria Violino I & II, Baβi ... gedruckten Partitur pag. 47."; "No. 7 Chor Violino I & II, Bassi und Oboe I gedruckten Partitur pag. 49."; "No. 8 Chor Violino I & II, Baβi ... Oboe I ... gedruckten Partitur pag. 62."
Has single leaf attached at front, from Literarisches Centralblatt, No. 8, 19 February 1876 (columns numbered 245-248).
Autograph manuscript of music from Handel's 'O praise the Lord'. Written out on 11 May 1836 in preparation for a performance on 23 May 1836 at the Düsseldorf Music Festival.
From the library of Lord Brotherton.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (MWV). Studien-Ausgabe von Ralf Wehner (Wiesbaden, 2009), Anh. B.
Indexed in: Ralf Wehner: '"There is probably no better living authority on Mendelssohn's autograph": W.T. Freemantle und seine Mendelssohn-Sammlung', Mendelssohn Studien, 16 (2009), pp. 333-69,
Features
Bindings
Bound in quarter morocco with linen sides.
Provenance
Former owner: W.T. Freemantle since about 1882, unknown before then.
Access and usage
Access
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