The Overture, Choruses, Marches & Symphonies in the Sacred Oratorio of Saul Adapted for the Organ or Piano Forte - Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759; Jennens, Charles 1700-1773; Crotch, William 1775-1847 (London Birchall, 1815)
Plate "Buchbinderei Peter Clausen Rendsburg"
dating: before or around 1815, which is the publication date of the next work in the same series of Organ transcriptions of Händel oratorios by Crotch published by Birchall (nr.10, Messiah)
Although this is pure keyboard arrangement, Crotch offered all texts of the choruses in the introduction.
each piece has its specific metronome indication (Crotch's pendulum markings in inches) See: Emanuel Rubin, "New Light on Late Eighteenth-Century Tempo: William Crotch's Pendulum Markings"http://scholarship.claremont.edu/ppr/vol2/iss1
Ex libris Friedrich Crysander (plate)
Ex libris Staats Universitäts Bibliothek Hamburg (Stamp)
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Oratorio; Old Testament; Overture; Choral music; March; Symphony; Instrumentation; Tempo; Keyboard music; Organ music; Freedom; Metronome; United Kingdom; boekprijs; echoeffekt