[Motets and Arias].

Bookseller Notes

A much-used collection, with many performance indications (tutti, piano, fuga, langsam, echo etc.) clearly inscribed, but only three composer attributions: Motet 8 is ascribed to 'Di Rolla', possibly the seventeenth-century composer Giorgio Rolla, Aria 43 to Halie(?), and most intriguing of all, Motet 38 to 'Hershell'. The motet is certainly the longest and most developed of the collection, and the style is that of the later eighteenth-century, suggesting that this is the tenor part of a motet by the renowned astronomer and musician, Frederick William Herschel, whose compositions drew the admiration of Mozart and Beethoven.