Image: Handel, Lascia ch’io pianga autograph score, 1711

Description: Autograph score of the opening of George Friedrich Handel's aria Lascia ch'io pianga from the 1711 opera Rinaldo
Title: Handel, Lascia ch’io pianga autograph score, 1711
Credit: Taken from the article A mangled chime: the accidental death of the opera libretto in Civil War England by Andrew Pinnock and Bruce Wood, from the journal "Early Music" Volume 36, Issue 2, pp. 265-284. The article gives the source as "(Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Mus.Ms.254, p.31) (reproduced by permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)"
Author: George Friedrich Handel (1685–1759)
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