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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 463x Score — 47x
Cembalo — 32x , Violino I — 45x , Violino II — 31x , Viola — 29x , Basso — 29x
Allegro — 16x , Largo — 14x , Allegretto — 9x

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 — 372x Score — 38x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 24x , Violino — 29x
Rondò II — 11x , Rondò III — 11x , Rondò IV — 10x

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 — 467x Score — 38x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 31x , Violino I — 25x , Violino II — 26x , Viola — 23x , Basso — 25x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 23x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 24x , Corno in Fa I — 24x , Corno in Fa II — 25x
Allegro — 14x , Larghetto — 10x , Rondò — 14x

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 — 514x Score — 32x
Violino — 25x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 26x
Sonata V — 11x , Sonata VI — 13x

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 — 383x Score — 31x
Cembalo — 25x , Violino — 25x

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 — 379x Score — 33x
Violino — 28x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 25x
Sonata I - Preludio — 11x , Sonata I - Rondò — 11x , Sonata II - Preludio — 12x , Sonata II - Rondò — 11x

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 — 418x Score — 39x
Cembalo — 27x , Violino I — 29x , Violino II — 22x , Viola — 25x , Viola with no bass clef — 22x , Basso — 25x , Flauto traverso I — 25x , Flauto traverso II — 24x , Corno I — 26x , Corno II — 23x
Allegro — 15x , Larghetto — 13x , Rondeau — 12x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 372x Score — 43x
Flauto — 31x , Violino — 20x , Viola — 24x , Violoncello — 23x
Andante poco adagio — 13x , Rondo - Allegretto — 15x

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 — 436x Score — 35x
Corno I e II — 27x , Flauto I e II — 24x , Violino I — 26x , Violino II — 23x , Viola — 23x , Cembalo — 29x , Basso — 24x
Allegro — 12x , Largo — 11x , Allegretto — 12x

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