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Butler/Section 7 (VII)/Box 5/29.2
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- 1815–1860 (Circa) (Creation)
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1 item paper
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Portfolio in portrait format, containing unbound printed sheet music by Handel and others. Includes: 'Das Beruhmte Largo von G.F. Handel' (Wien: Friedrich Schreiber); 'A Favorite Chorus from Belshazzar, composed by Handel' (Addison & Hodson); 'Six Songs translated from the German of Heine by R.W. Fullerton, composed by A.L. Eigher' ([London]: Robert W. Ollivier, [1860]), inscribed to Samuel Butler from the composer; 'The Celebrated Chorusses, from Handel's Oratorios, arranged for the organ or piano forte by J.C. Nightingale' ([London]: Halliday & Co., [c.1830]), Books 7, 9 and 10; 'Handel's Hornpipe, arranged for the piano by D. Brocca' ([London]: William Czerny, [1869]); 'The Overture, Pastoral Symphony and Choruses in the Sacred Oratorio of Messiah' ([London]: Rt. Birchall, [c.1815]); 'Handel's "Water Piece"' ([London]: Preston and Son, [1818?]); 'Handel's Twelfth Chandos Anthem, "O Priase the Lord, Ye Angels"' ([London]: Novello); 'Gemme d'Antichita, Raccolta di Pezzi Vocali, composti dai piu Celebri Maestri Antichi' (C. Lonsdale). Also contains one sheet of manuscript music, being a copy of two minuets arranged by G.B. Lully, in the hand of Mary Butler (sister of Samuel).