Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Händel, Georg Friederich (Handel, Hendel, George Frideric)
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, opera, HWV 17, atto II, scena 2
Items with viola da gamba:
- Sinfonia in F major (n° 18)
- Aria Cleopatra (soprano) “V’adoro pupille” (n° 19)
Instruments in the first version: oboe, viola da gamba, harp, theorbo (all on stage) and orchestra
Instruments in the second and third version: oboe, two violins, viola, viola da gamba, theorbo, harp, bassoon, violoncello (all on stage) and orchestra
manuscript
1st version, autograph: GB-Lbl R. M. 20.b.3 f. 76v ss.
2nd version: GB-Lbl R.M.19.c.6 f. 65 s.
3rd version: D-Hs MA/1019 ff. 68r-71v; GB-Lbl R.M.19.c.7 f. 57v s.; GB-Lbl Egerton ms 2919 f. 46 ss.
autograph: ID 804002164
Julie Anne Sadie, Handel. In Pursuit of the Viol, «Chelys» 14 (1985), pp. 3-24
Händel-Handbuch: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis, Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1986
Peter Holman, Life after Death: the Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch, 2010
, p. 118 J. Merrill Knapp, Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, in «Studies in Music History. Essays for Oliver Strunk» Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1968
