description: This catalogue presents a complete survey of the surviving autographs of Handel's music--more than 7,500 leaves in the composer's hand written over a perod of nearly fifty years. Works and movements for which autographs survive are identified, and essential information about the physicalcharacteristics are recoded, including the watermark type for each leaf of paper, the types of rastra employed, and the presence of pencil annotations. All watermark types are illustrated with full-size diagrams.
language: English
title: A Catalogue of Handel's Musical Autographs
titlecomplete: A Catalogue of Handel's Musical Autographs
publisher: Oxford University Press