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Albinoni, Tomaso (1671 - 1751)

Sample page — 648x Score — 403x
Violino — 190x
Allemanda - Larghetto — 333x , Corente - Allegro — 229x , Gavota — 314x , Sarabanda — 298x

The source is the autograph of the score available at Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitäts- bibliothek (SLUB) (D-Dl) , Mus.2199-R- 5, RISM ID no.: 212001522. References are: TalAl So 33, RosA II.A.1.9.5. The manuscript was brought by Pisendel in 1717 from Venice.

Version 1.0
Sample page — 749x Score — 275x
Violino — 197x
Adagio — 335x , Allegro — 306x , Adagio — 286x , Allegro — 296x

The source is the autograph of the score available at Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitäts- bibliothek (SLUB) (D-Dl) , Mus.2199-R- 1, RISM ID no.: 212001583. References are: GiaA 108, TalAl So32, RosA II.A.1.12.3. Caption title: “Sonata a Violino | solo | di me Tomaso Albinoni | Composta p il Sig: | Pisendel”.

Version 1.0
Sample page — 667x Score — 246x
Violino I — 167x , Violino II — 163x , Viola — 161x , Violoncello — 171x , Basso continuo — 180x , Oboe I — 184x , Oboe II — 167x
Allegro — 175x , Largo — 166x , Allegro — 171x

The source of Concerto VIII Op. 7 by Albinoni is a printed edition of separate parts with caption title “Concerti a Cinque”, Estienne Roger, Amsterdam, 1717. The edition is online available at Petrucci Music Library.

Version 2.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 658x Score — 311x
Flauto traversiere I — 208x , Flauto traversiere II — 233x , Oboe I — 214x , Oboe II — 220x , Violino I — 240x , Violino II — 210x , Viola — 191x , Fagotto — 232x , Basso — 205x
Sinfonia allegro — 170x , Larghetto e sempre piano — 134x , Allegro — 150x

The reference source is a ms. of separate parts Mus. 2199-N-2. This Sinfonia in g has been classified by: GiaA 110, TalAl Si 7, RosA II.D.2.3.1.  In this version it could be an arrangement of a symphony for a string orchestra to the needs of the Dresda orchestra: flutes and oboes are always doubling the violin parts. Even bassoon is doubling the bass part.

Version 1.0 with a new editorial format.
Sample — 668x Score — 260x
Flauto traversiere I — 201x , Flauto traversiere II — 186x , Oboe I — 190x , Oboe II — 185x , Violino I — 237x , Violino II — 189x , Viola — 187x , Fagotto — 203x , Violone — 182x , Cembalo — 205x
Allegro — 152x , Largo — 158x , Allegro [2] — 141x

Source is a ms of 18 separate parts Mus. 2199-N-4, Digitale Sammlungen, SLUB Dresden. Several authors classified this Sinfonia: GiaA 112, TalAl Mi 2, RosA II.D.2.1.1. Possibly, it is an arrangement for the Dresden Orchestra of a Sinfonia for oboes and strings by Albinoni. In fact, almost always flutes double violins and in the first movement fall below the usual instrument range.

Version 1.0 was published on August 18, 2009. On July 21, 2013 it was published with a new editorial format.
Sample — 897x Score — 355x
Violino I — 225x , Violino II — 180x , Violino III — 206x , Viola — 173x , Violoncello — 205x , Basso — 189x
Allegro — 164x , Adagio - Presto — 166x , Adagio - Allegro — 158x

Source, available at International Music Library Project (IMSLP22141-PMLP50761), is a printed edition of six parts by John Walsh, London (no date). Caption title: „ALBINONIS CONCERTOS / in Seven Parts / for three / VIOLINS TENORS / and / BASS VIOLIN / with a / THROUGH BASS / for the / HARPSICHORD / Compos'd by / TOMASO ALBINONI / Opera Secunda”. The Viola Tenor part is not included, while the remaining six parts follow the first edition of Opera Seconda (G. Sala, Venezia, 1700).

Version 1.0
Sample — 750x Score — 314x
Violino principale — 209x , Violino I — 183x , Violino II — 187x , Viola — 184x , Violoncello / Organo — 198x
Allegro — 310x , Adagio — 322x , Allegro — 307x

Source is a digitized copy of a printed edition of parts by Le Cène, Amsterdam, c. 1730: “CONCERTI A CINQUE / Con Violini, Oboè, Violetta, Violoncello / e Basso Continuo / Del (!) Signori / G. Valentini, A. Vivaldi, T. Albinoni, / F. M. Veracini, G. S.t Martin, / A. Marcello, G. Rampin, A. Predieri / Libro Secondo / A Amsterdam / Chez / Michel Charles Le Céne Libraire / N.o 433”. Concerto No. XI on one of the five concertos without opus number, already published by J. Roger in 1717/18, with multiple errors copied by Le Céne. For a detailed analysis look at Fabrizio Ammetto, „La produzione strumentale di Tomaso Albinoni (I) - I Concerti per violino senza numero d'opus“ Hortus Musicus N° 12 October-Dicember 2002. The edition is available at Digitale Bibliotek - Münchener Digitalisierung­zentrum (Mus.pr. 20734-2).

Version 1.0
Sample — 762x Score — 328x
Violino I — 204x , Violino II — 220x , Violoncello — 207x
[I.1] Vivace — 183x , [I.2] Largo — 188x , [I.3] Allegro ma non presto — 177x , [I.4] Allegro — 182x , [II.1] Allegro — 160x , [II.2] Largo — 180x , [II.3] Allegro — 178x , [III.1] Vivace — 151x , [III.2] Largo [Allegro - Adagio] — 169x , [III.3] Allegro — 183x

The source is a 1746 ms. of separate parts, partly autograph in the Violino secondo part, available at Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica S. Pietro a Majella, Napoli, IT\ICCU\MSM\0084782.

Version 1.0