Handel, GF: Crudel tiranno Amor (HWV 97b). Cantata con stromenti for Solo Voice and Keyboard. (Facsimile and Performing Edition) (Sheet Music)

“This newly rediscovered autograph score by George Frideric Handel, containing a complete and previously unknown version of the solo cantata ‘ Crudel tiranno Amor’, is preserved among the more than three hundred collections in the Music Department of the Bavarian State Library.
The sensational discovery was made in 2004 by the musicologist Dr. Berthold Over, who identified the anonymous manuscript of the Italian solo cantata Crudel tiranno Amor as a work by Handel in his own hand (HWV 97).
We share the hope that our facsimile reproduction and first edition, along with the première performance on 17 May 2006 in the Church of All Saints (Munich Residence), will make one of the most delightful of Handel’s Italian cantatas publicly accessible in the best possible manner.”
Dr. Rolf Griebel, General Director of the Bavarian State Library


- First edition of a spectacular discovery in the Bavarian State Library
- High-quality facsimile with transcription
- Scholarly introduction by Berthold Over


“… Handel scholars will be the first to want a copy, but performers too, should be intrigued by the new discovery and by the chance to enjoy Handel’s exuberant manuscript perfectly reproduced … a beautiful book.“
(Singing Issue 52 Summer 2007)