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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 533x Score — 98x
Cembalo — 71x , Violino I — 84x , Violino II — 70x , Viola — 67x , Basso — 65x
Allegro — 52x , Largo — 64x , Allegretto — 45x

The source is the autograph of the score, Biblioteca dell'Abbazia di Montecassino (I-MC) 7-E-17, RISM ID no.: 852029682. Title on source: “Concerto per Cembalo | Fatto da Giovanni Paisiello”.

Version 1.0
Sample page — 425x Score — 84x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 68x , Rondò III — 70x , Rondò IV — 53x

The source is a manuscript of the scores ((IT\ICCU\MSM \0165045-61, -62 and -63)), available at Conservatorio di musica San Pietro a Majella, Napoli. The scores are included in this collection: “Libro Primo / Raccolta di Sonate, Sinfonie, e Rondò / Per Cembalo o Piano-forte / Del Sig.re Giovanni Paisiello”.

Version 1.0
Sample page — 517x Score — 82x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 72x , Violino I — 64x , Violino II — 69x , Viola — 63x , Basso — 61x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 62x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 60x , Corno in Fa I — 62x , Corno in Fa II — 61x
Allegro — 56x , Larghetto — 50x , Rondò — 58x

The source is a manuscript of the score (ms. M.312.24, RISM ID no. 000102955), available at Boston Public Library, Music Department (US-Bp), Boston. Caption title: “Concerto | per Cembalo o Pianoforte | Con | VV.ni, Viole, Oboe Corni da Caccia, e Basso | Composto dal Sig.re. D. Giovanni Paisiello Maestro di | Cappella di Camera e compositore delle loro | Maestà Siciliane”.

Version 1.0
Sample page — 591x Score — 66x
Violino — 59x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 63x
Sonata V — 66x , Sonata VI — 68x

The source is a manuscript of the scores ((IT\ICCU\MSM \0165045-46)), available at Conservatorio di musica San Pietro a Majella, Napoli. The scores are included in this collection: “Libro Primo / Raccolta di Sonate, Sinfonie, e Rondò / Per Cembalo o Piano-forte / Del Sig.re Giovanni Paisiello”. The frontispiece  includes a script, by a later hand, saying that the majority of these sonatas are not original pieces but transcriptions of arias from theater operas.

Version 1.0
Sample page — 447x Score — 71x
Cembalo — 57x , Violino — 60x

The source is a manuscript of the scores ((IT\ICCU\MSM \0165045-46)), available at Conservatorio di musica San Pietro a Majella, Napoli. The scores are included in this collection: “Libro Primo / Raccolta di Sonate, Sinfonie, e Rondò / Per Cembalo o Piano-forte / Del Sig.re Giovanni Paisiello”. The frontispiece includes a script, by a later hand, saying that the majority of these sonatas are not original pieces but transcriptions of arias from theater operas.

Sample page — 432x Score — 79x
Violino — 65x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 61x
Sonata I - Preludio — 59x , Sonata I - Rondò — 54x , Sonata II - Preludio — 56x , Sonata II - Rondò — 51x

The source is a manuscript of the scores ((IT\ICCU\MSM \0165045-46)), available at Conservatorio di musica San Pietro a Majella, Napoli. The scores are included in this collection: “Libro Primo / Raccolta di Sonate, Sinfonie, e Rondò / Per Cembalo o Piano-forte / Del Sig.re Giovanni Paisiello”. The frontispiece includes a script, by a later hand, saying that the majority of these sonatas are not original pieces but transcriptions of arias from theater operas.

Version 1.0
Sample page — 461x Score — 77x
Cembalo — 61x , Violino I — 64x , Violino II — 66x , Viola — 64x , Viola with no bass clef — 57x , Basso — 86x , Flauto traverso I — 60x , Flauto traverso II — 66x , Corno I — 133x , Corno II — 67x
Allegro — 52x , Larghetto — 62x , Rondeau — 55x

The source is the autograph of the score (ms. DM02032002684), available at Conservatorio di musica San Pietro a Majella, Napoli.

Version 1.3
Sample — 444x Score — 85x
Flauto — 68x , Violino — 58x , Viola — 68x , Violoncello — 66x
Andante poco adagio — 63x , Rondo - Allegretto — 54x

Source is a printed edition available at Giedde's Collection, Copenhagen Royal Library. Caption title: “SIX / QUATUORS / Pour / FLÛTE, VIOLON, VIOLA / & VIOLONCELL (sic) / composés par / M.s PAISIELLO / Oeuvre XXIII / Bronsvic / au Magazin de Musique / à la Höhe. / [only in the flute part] a. Hambourg chez Gunter & Böhme”.

Version 1.0 was published on September 25, 2008. On July 31, 2013, it was published with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 490x Score — 74x
Corno I e II — 58x , Flauto I e II — 55x , Violino I — 67x , Violino II — 54x , Viola — 57x , Cembalo — 74x , Basso — 57x
Allegro — 104x , Largo — 93x , Allegretto — 98x

Source is the autograph ms. available at Conservatorio di musica San Pietro a Majella, Napoli. Score and parts have been published with the original notation for horn in F (I and III movements) or in C (II movement).

Version 1.2