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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 577x Score — 183x
Cembalo — 118x , Violino I — 135x , Violino II — 119x , Viola — 105x , Basso — 107x
Allegro — 188x , Largo — 244x , Allegretto — 169x

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 — 485x Score — 134x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 203x , Rondò III — 208x , Rondò IV — 188x

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 — 552x Score — 141x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 130x , Violino I — 123x , Violino II — 118x , Viola — 120x , Basso — 121x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 130x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 116x , Corno in Fa I — 119x , Corno in Fa II — 111x
Allegro — 148x , Larghetto — 157x , Rondò — 192x

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 — 650x Score — 122x
Violino — 102x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 108x
Sonata V — 148x , Sonata VI — 212x

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 — 495x Score — 111x
Cembalo — 102x , Violino — 107x

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 — 474x Score — 129x
Violino — 107x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 107x
Sonata I - Preludio — 118x , Sonata I - Rondò — 168x , Sonata II - Preludio — 188x , Sonata II - Rondò — 242x

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 — 504x Score — 134x
Cembalo — 111x , Violino I — 106x , Violino II — 107x , Viola — 102x , Viola with no bass clef — 99x , Basso — 133x , Flauto traverso I — 95x , Flauto traverso II — 107x , Corno I — 176x , Corno II — 117x
Allegro — 100x , Larghetto — 167x , Rondeau — 188x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 501x Score — 162x
Flauto — 135x , Violino — 119x , Viola — 130x , Violoncello — 177x
Andante poco adagio — 233x , Rondo - Allegretto — 182x

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 — 537x Score — 145x
Corno I e II — 103x , Flauto I e II — 102x , Violino I — 120x , Violino II — 101x , Viola — 105x , Cembalo — 125x , Basso — 105x
Allegro — 145x , Largo — 141x , Allegretto — 149x

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