_Sinfonie diverse_ (48). Eight short pieces for orchestral instruments. 32. Overture in five movements (incomplete) for two clarionets and corno di caccia. MS. in Fitzwilliam Museum. * * * * * The COMPLETE HANDEL EDITION contains as supplements several volumes of works by various Italian and German composers, which Handel has utilised in his compositions, namely:-- 1. _Magnificat_ said to be by Erba. 2. _Te deum_ said to be by Urio. 3. _Serenata_ by Stradella. 4. _Duetti_ by Clari. 5. _Componimenti musicali_ by G. Muffat. 6. _Octavia_ by Reinhard Keiser. BIBLIOGRAPHY FRIEDRICH CHRYSANDER, _G. F. Handel_. 3 vols., 1858-67, Leipzig. (The name of Chrysander ought to be attached permanently to that of Handel, for his life was entirely devoted to him. It was he who founded in 1856, with Gervinus, the GERMAN HANDEL SOCIETY and who accomplished nearly the whole of the Complete Edition of the Works of Handel in one hundred volumes by himself alone. His biography is a monument of science and devotion comparable with Philipp Spitta's _J. S. Bach_ and Otto Jahn's _Mozart_. Unfortunately the work remained unfinished: it stopped at the year 1740. Max Seiffert completed it.) SCHOELCHER, _The Life of Handel_. 1857. (Schoelcher's works, anterior to those of Chrysander, are valuable on account of their collection of documents rather than that of the general laying out of the works. As we have seen, the priceless collection of these documents is housed at the Paris Conservatoire.) HERMANN KRETZSCHMAR, _Georg Friedrich Handel_ (published in the _Sammlung musikalischer Vorträge_ by Paul Graf Waldersee). FRITZ VOLBACH, _Georg-Friedrich Hændel_ (Collection: _Harmonie_. 1898, Berlin). (These two last works are excellent little _résumés_ of the life and works of Handel.) J. A. FULLER-MAITLAND, _The Age of Bach and Handel_ (The Oxford History of Music, Vol. IV). 1902, Oxford. R. A. STREATFEILD, _Handel_. 1909, London. (This book is one of the first in England which has freed the figure of Handel from the false mass of moralising and teaching under which the author of the _Messiah_ was buried. He shows the richness and freedom of Handel's work and rectifies several points in the German biographies.) ADIMOLO, _G. F. Handel in Italia_. SEDLEY TAYLOR, _The Indebtedness of Handel to Works by other Composers_. 1906, Cambridge. P. ROBINSON, _Handel and his Orbit_. 1908, London. (These two last books are concerned with the question of Handel's plagiarisms.) F. VOLBACH, _Die Praxis der Hændel-Aufführung_, 1889. Thesis for Doctorate. (On the Orchestra of Handel.) HUGO GOLDSCHMIDT, _Die Lehre von der vocalen Ornamentik_. 1907. (On the vocal execution of Handel's works, and particularly on the question of Handel's ornaments. This matter has been the subject of numerous discussions in the numbers of the _International Musical Gazette_, especially by Max Seiffert.)