Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1917 — Handel's Holograph Will. [ARTICLE]

Handel's Holograph Will.

Musicians will be keenly interested tn the fact that the famous holograph will of Handel, signed by the “composer in full, with four signed codicils, has been sold by auction in London. The will contains the bequest to Mr. Christopher Smith (Handel’s amanuensis) of “my large Harplschord, my little House Organ, my Musick Books, and five hundred pounds sterl.” In the collection are relics of early English masters —Lawes, Morley, Carey, Playford, etc. Among moderns there is the MS. score of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s anthem, “Sing Unto the Lord,” written when the future Savoyard was a choirboy at the Chapel Royal.