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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 580x Score — 206x
Cembalo — 127x , Violino I — 148x , Violino II — 128x , Viola — 112x , Basso — 121x
Allegro — 268x , Largo — 335x , Allegretto — 243x

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 — 489x Score — 142x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 222x , Rondò III — 268x , Rondò IV — 227x

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 — 556x Score — 148x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 139x , Violino I — 132x , Violino II — 126x , Viola — 128x , Basso — 131x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 137x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 126x , Corno in Fa I — 125x , Corno in Fa II — 121x
Allegro — 225x , Larghetto — 224x , Rondò — 261x

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 — 678x Score — 135x
Violino — 114x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 119x
Sonata V — 218x , Sonata VI — 277x

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 — 521x Score — 132x
Cembalo — 116x , Violino — 122x

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 — 497x Score — 162x
Violino — 117x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 119x
Sonata I - Preludio — 144x , Sonata I - Rondò — 248x , Sonata II - Preludio — 273x , Sonata II - Rondò — 338x

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 — 508x Score — 157x
Cembalo — 120x , Violino I — 117x , Violino II — 114x , Viola — 109x , Viola with no bass clef — 106x , Basso — 162x , Flauto traverso I — 100x , Flauto traverso II — 114x , Corno I — 223x , Corno II — 150x
Allegro — 113x , Larghetto — 238x , Rondeau — 252x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 512x Score — 188x
Flauto — 146x , Violino — 149x , Viola — 139x , Violoncello — 206x
Andante poco adagio — 312x , Rondo - Allegretto — 255x

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 — 545x Score — 173x
Corno I e II — 108x , Flauto I e II — 114x , Violino I — 127x , Violino II — 113x , Viola — 114x , Cembalo — 142x , Basso — 116x
Allegro — 153x , Largo — 150x , Allegretto — 157x

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