Composers

Lotti, Antonio (1667 - 1740)

Sample page — 42x ⇩ Score — 24x ⇩
Soprano — 17x ⇩, Violino I — 13x ⇩, Violino II — 13x ⇩, Viola — 13x ⇩, Basso continuo — 13x ⇩, Oboe I — 18x ⇩, Oboe II — 14x ⇩
[1.] Aria - Chari Zephyri fonte — 9x ⇩, [2.] Recitativo - Inter ignes cælestes amabilis — 8x ⇩, [3.] Ritornello — 9x ⇩, [4.] Aria - Quasi phoenix orba prolis — 10x ⇩, [5.] Alleluja — 8x ⇩

The source of “Chari Zephyri fontes” in A major is the manuscript of the score. Title: “Chari Zephÿri fontes p. | à | Soprano Solo | 2 Hautbois | 2 Violini | 1 Violetta | con il Basso Continuo.“, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung, Berlin (D-B), Mus.ms. 30095, RISM-ID: 455026787.

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Sample page — 52x ⇩ Score — 26x ⇩
Oboe — 20x ⇩, Violino I — 15x ⇩, Violino II — 15x ⇩, Viola — 17x ⇩, Basso — 15x ⇩
[1. Allegro] [Quegl'occhi amabili - Giove in Argo] — 13x ⇩, [2.] Largo [Vile e debole il cuor da te non chiede - Ascanio] — 13x ⇩, [3.] Presto [Agitata da spaventi - Ascanio] — 11x ⇩

The Concerto is an arrangement, perhaps by Lotti himself (M. Talbot) of three opera arias taken from his works Giove in Argo and Ascanio. The sources are: 1) the anonymous manuscript of the parts: “Concerto a 5 | g b | Hoboe Principalo | Violino Primo | Violino Secundo | Viola | et Basso Continuo.”, Saml.Wenster L:10, Universitetsbiblioteket, Lund (S-L), RISM: 190001696; 2) the manuscript of the score: “Die meisten Arien aus der Pastoral | Giove in Argo | und der Opera Ascanio”, (18 arias and 1 duetto from the pastorale, 35 arias and 1 duetto from the opera by A. Lotti), ND VI 2625 (Nr. 1-55), Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, Musiksammlung, Hamburg (D-Hs).

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Sample page — 50x ⇩ Score with Oboe d'Amore part transposed into A major — 24x ⇩, Non-transposed score — 26x ⇩
Cembalo / Basso — 13x ⇩, Oboe d'Amore transposed into A major — 18x ⇩, Non-transposed Oboe d'Amore — 22x ⇩, Violino I — 11x ⇩, Violino II — 13x ⇩, Viola — 11x ⇩
[1.] Allegro — 10x ⇩, [2.] Affettuoso — 11x ⇩, [3.] Allegro — 16x ⇩

The sources of the Concerto are: 1) the manuscript of the parts (1734): “Concerto ex A. Hautbois d'amour solo, violino primo, violino 2.do, viola & basso cembalo.”, MS. 360, Univer-sitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Münster (D-MÜu), RISM: sources/450016927; 2) the manuscript of the score (>1944): “Conzerto für Oboe d'amore mit Begleitung eines Streichorchesters und Continuo”, Mus-Ms-347, TU Darmstadt. Both manuscripts erroneously attri-bute the concerto to Heinichen, while several more reliable sources (Christoph Graupner, Breitkopf Thematic Catalogue. Part III 1763) indicate Antonio Lotti.

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Sample page — 115x ⇩ Score — 32x ⇩
Violino I — 20x ⇩, Violino II — 18x ⇩, Viola — 16x ⇩, Basso — 17x ⇩, Oboe I — 17x ⇩, Oboe II — 16x ⇩, Fagotto — 15x ⇩
Ouverture — 11x ⇩, Sarabande — 14x ⇩, Passepied — 12x ⇩

The source is the manuscript of the score of “Ascanio” (1718), Dresden, (D-Dl), Mus.2159-F-5, RISM ID no.: 212006104. The title is missing.

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Sample page — 116x ⇩ Score — 38x ⇩
Violino I / Oboe I — 24x ⇩, Violino II / Oboe II — 16x ⇩, Viola — 20x ⇩, Basso — 19x ⇩
Allegro — 7x ⇩, [Largo] — 8x ⇩, Presto — 7x ⇩

The source is the manuscript the score of “Alessandro Severo” (1717), Dresden, (Dresden, (D-Dl)), Mus.2159- F-2, RISM ID no.: 21200610. Title page: “ALESSANDRO SEVERO | DRAMA | Rappresentato nel Teatro di S. Gio: Grisostomo | Il Carnovale [sic!] dell'Anno MDCCXVII | POESIA | Dell'Illmo Sig.r Apostolo Zen [sic!] | MUSICA | Del Sig.r Antonio Lotti”.

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Sample page — 714x ⇩ Score — 120x ⇩, Score with the oboe part transposed to A major — 69x ⇩
Flauto traversiere — 84x ⇩, Oboe d'amore — 54x ⇩, Oboe d'amore (transposed in A major) — 61x ⇩, Basso / Cembalo — 60x ⇩
Vivace — 40x ⇩, Largo — 41x ⇩, Allegro — 42x ⇩

The source is the manuscript of separate parts. Caption title: “TRIO | à | Flute Traversieur | Hautbois d'Amour | et | Basse Chiffrée | del | Seigneur Lotti”, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B), Mus.ms. 13216, RISM ID no.: 452021898.

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Sample — 409x ⇩ Score — 54x ⇩
Violino I — 27x ⇩, Violino II — 24x ⇩, Fagotto obbligato — 32x ⇩, Basso — 25x ⇩
Adagio — 14x ⇩, Allegro — 11x ⇩, Adagio — 12x ⇩, Allegro — 11x ⇩

The Sonata in B-flat major is available as a ms. of separate parts at the Stockholm Royal Library, Utile Dulci database.

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Sample — 642x ⇩ Score — 31x ⇩
Tromba I — 17x ⇩, Tromba II — 17x ⇩, Oboe I — 15x ⇩, Oboe II — 18x ⇩, Flauto I / Flauto II — 20x ⇩, Violino I — 17x ⇩, Violino II — 20x ⇩, Viola — 16x ⇩, Basso — 16x ⇩
Sinfonia — 12x ⇩, Adagio - Andante — 13x ⇩, Allegro — 12x ⇩

The main source is the ms. of the score of the Sinfonia from the opera “Polidoro”, opera in five acts by Antonio Lotti, online available at Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella, Napoli. A second source is a ms. of parts of an arrangement with horns in place of trumpets and the addition of flutes traversieres, SLUB, Dresden.

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Score first page — 477x ⇩ Full score — 37x ⇩
Oboe I — 27x ⇩, Oboe II — 21x ⇩, Violoncello — 25x ⇩, Basso — 21x ⇩
Echo — 15x ⇩, Adagio — 16x ⇩, Presto — 14x ⇩

“Quartetto Echo” in F major is available as a ms. of separate parts at the Stockholm Royal Library, Utile Dulci database.

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Sample — 729x ⇩ Score — 60x ⇩
Flauto traversiere I — 26x ⇩, Flauto traversiere II — 17x ⇩, Violino I — 20x ⇩, Violino II — 20x ⇩, Viola — 20x ⇩, Fagotto — 23x ⇩, Basso — 19x ⇩
Allegro — 16x ⇩, Adagio — 14x ⇩, Allegro — 14x ⇩

The main source is the ms. of parts of the Sinfonia from the opera “Giove in Argo”, given in Dresden on 1717. Ms. is available on SLUB, Dresden as Mus.2159-F-4b, RISM-A/II-212001733. It is a variant of the ms. Mus. 2159-F-4a, RISM-A/II-212001259, with flutes replacing oboes, and with the addition of bassoon.

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