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Handel's oratorio, "Samson", (composed in the year 1742)

Archive Print Item: Music E-2/HAN

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Type of record: Book

Title: Handel's oratorio, "Samson", (composed in the year 1742)

Other titles: Samson; Samson

Level: Item

Classmark: Music E-2/HAN

Creator(s): Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)

Additional creator(s): Hamilton, Newburgh (1691-1761) (Other); Milton, John (1608-1674) (Other); Novello, Vincent (1781-1861) (Other)

Related people: Hamilton, Newburgh; Milton, John; Novello, Vincent

Publisher: Novello

Publication city: London

Date(s): [ca. 1865]

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 vocal score (iii, viii, 219 p.)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/438562

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009874369705181

Description

For solo voices, chorus (SSATTB) and orchestra; accompaniment arranged for piano.


Libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, after Milton.


Words also printed as text (p. i-viii).

Additional description

Binder's label of J. Rowbotham. Ownership inscription and stamp of John Henry Chatterton (1875)

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