Faramondo : an opera as it is perform'd at the King's Theatre in the Hay-Market /

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Author / Creator:Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, composer.
Uniform title:Faramondo. Selections
Imprint:London : printed for & sold by I. Walsh ..., [approximately 1738]
Description:1 score (4 unnumbered, 91 pages) ; 35 cm
Language:Italian
Subject:Operas -- Scores.
Operas -- Scores.
Format: Music score Print
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy 1 in original plain blue wrappers.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3842356
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Other authors / contributors:Zeno, Apostolo, 1668-1750, librettist.
Notes:Without the recitative.
Publication date from Smith, cited below.
Later issue according to Smith, cited below.
First performed on 3 January 1738 at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
Libretto adapted from A. Zeno, as revised in Rome, 1720.
"A table of songs," and an advertisement: "N.B. Where these are sold may be had, The opera of Berenice . . . with several other curious pieces, both vocal and instrumental, by the same author"--page [3].
University of Chicago Library's copy 1 without "Advertisement leaf" described in Smith.
RISM A/I, H 139
Smith, W. C. and Humphries, C. Handel : a descriptive catalogue of the early editions (2nd edition), page 25, no. 2
New Grove opera, II:631
Italian words.
Publisher's no.:No. 633 Walsh

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