Adom gnolam (Adon 'olam) and other tunes for the High Holidays (Rosh ha-shanah and Yom Kippur) - Lino Finzi - incomplete music score for two sopranos, tenor (also solo), and bass - Mantova

Adom gnolam (Adon 'olam) and other tunes for the High Holidays (Rosh ha-shanah and Yom Kippur) - Lino Finzi - incomplete music score for two sopranos, tenor (also solo), and bass - Mantova

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Adon gnolam

Mantua (presumed)

Library of Congress - Washington D.C.

Call Number/Physical Location: LC Hebr. Ms 194 / Micro Orien. Hebr. 880/

Repository: Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedscd.2018757812/?sp=1&st=image

This manuscript was certainly part of a much bigger liturgical music - The compositions here coincides and are in the same order as in ms. Par. 45 (Composizioni per coro all'unissono e soli per Tenore con accompagnamento di organo -Norsa, Vittorio), Cartone 5/B; Mus.28 of the Teresiana Library in Mantova - see the links below:

http://digiebraico.bibliotecateresiana.it/gruppi.php?tipo=musica&op=esplora_ric&cata=archivio&gruppo=PAR001052

http://digiebraico.bibliotecateresiana.it/sfoglia.php?tipo=musica&op=esplora_ric&gruppo=PAR001052&sottogruppo=PAR045&offset=0

Second half of the 19th century

The manuscript was presumably part of a much bigger collection of liturgical pieces for the synagogue of Mantua . On the top left-side of the first page, after the name of Finzi appears a number - 42 - that might be page number of the original volume. While there was a composer, attested in Venice, called Lino Finzi, the person mentioned here was most probably a member of the choir, to which the score belonged.
We don't know when and how the manuscript arrived to the USA and when it became part of the Library of Congress' collection. In the manuscript (f. 4r) the name of Gallico Carlo is mentioned. On f. 11v also the surname Castelfranchi is mentioned.