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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 623x ⇩ Score — 333x ⇩
Cembalo — 160x ⇩, Violino I — 191x ⇩, Violino II — 162x ⇩, Viola — 161x ⇩, Basso — 170x ⇩
Allegro — 455x ⇩, Largo — 515x ⇩, Allegretto — 374x ⇩

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 — 530x ⇩ Score — 187x ⇩
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x ⇩, Violino — 35x ⇩
Rondò II — 272x ⇩, Rondò III — 334x ⇩, Rondò IV — 302x ⇩

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 — 592x ⇩ Score — 186x ⇩
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 172x ⇩, Violino I — 162x ⇩, Violino II — 152x ⇩, Viola — 155x ⇩, Basso — 160x ⇩, Flauto I o Oboe I — 163x ⇩, Flauto II o Oboe II — 154x ⇩, Corno in Fa I — 157x ⇩, Corno in Fa II — 155x ⇩
Allegro — 324x ⇩, Larghetto — 331x ⇩, Rondò — 412x ⇩

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 — 802x ⇩ Score — 169x ⇩
Violino — 149x ⇩, Cembalo / Pianoforte — 189x ⇩
Sonata V — 313x ⇩, Sonata VI — 364x ⇩

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 — 581x ⇩ Score — 195x ⇩
Cembalo — 157x ⇩, Violino — 179x ⇩

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 — 538x ⇩ Score — 453x ⇩
Violino — 156x ⇩, Cembalo o Pianoforte — 153x ⇩
Sonata I - Preludio — 240x ⇩, Sonata I - Rondò — 374x ⇩, Sonata II - Preludio — 402x ⇩, Sonata II - Rondò — 484x ⇩

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 — 541x ⇩ Score — 220x ⇩
Cembalo — 149x ⇩, Violino I — 185x ⇩, Violino II — 146x ⇩, Viola — 146x ⇩, Viola with no bass clef — 136x ⇩, Basso — 245x ⇩, Flauto traverso I — 125x ⇩, Flauto traverso II — 156x ⇩, Corno I — 395x ⇩, Corno II — 242x ⇩
Allegro — 232x ⇩, Larghetto — 404x ⇩, Rondeau — 388x ⇩

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 536x ⇩ Score — 299x ⇩
Flauto — 236x ⇩, Violino — 258x ⇩, Viola — 185x ⇩, Violoncello — 296x ⇩
Andante poco adagio — 469x ⇩, Rondo - Allegretto — 383x ⇩

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 — 582x ⇩ Score — 285x ⇩
Corno I e II — 141x ⇩, Flauto I e II — 146x ⇩, Violino I — 175x ⇩, Violino II — 147x ⇩, Viola — 154x ⇩, Cembalo — 234x ⇩, Basso — 144x ⇩
Allegro — 196x ⇩, Largo — 196x ⇩, Allegretto — 202x ⇩

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