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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 625x ⇩ Score — 334x ⇩
Cembalo — 160x ⇩, Violino I — 191x ⇩, Violino II — 162x ⇩, Viola — 161x ⇩, Basso — 172x ⇩
Allegro — 464x ⇩, Largo — 516x ⇩, Allegretto — 375x ⇩

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 — 593x ⇩ Score — 187x ⇩
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 — 156x ⇩
Allegro — 325x ⇩, Larghetto — 332x ⇩, Rondò — 413x ⇩

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 — 803x ⇩ Score — 169x ⇩
Violino — 149x ⇩, Cembalo / Pianoforte — 190x ⇩
Sonata V — 314x ⇩, 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 — 539x ⇩ Score — 454x ⇩
Violino — 157x ⇩, Cembalo o Pianoforte — 154x ⇩
Sonata I - Preludio — 241x ⇩, Sonata I - Rondò — 375x ⇩, Sonata II - Preludio — 403x ⇩, Sonata II - Rondò — 486x ⇩

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 — 543x ⇩ Score — 223x ⇩
Cembalo — 150x ⇩, Violino I — 188x ⇩, Violino II — 147x ⇩, Viola — 147x ⇩, Viola with no bass clef — 137x ⇩, Basso — 247x ⇩, Flauto traverso I — 126x ⇩, Flauto traverso II — 158x ⇩, Corno I — 397x ⇩, Corno II — 245x ⇩
Allegro — 235x ⇩, Larghetto — 410x ⇩, Rondeau — 391x ⇩

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 — 300x ⇩
Flauto — 237x ⇩, Violino — 259x ⇩, Viola — 187x ⇩, Violoncello — 296x ⇩
Andante poco adagio — 470x ⇩, Rondo - Allegretto — 385x ⇩

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 — 583x ⇩ Score — 287x ⇩
Corno I e II — 141x ⇩, Flauto I e II — 146x ⇩, Violino I — 175x ⇩, Violino II — 147x ⇩, Viola — 154x ⇩, Cembalo — 235x ⇩, Basso — 147x ⇩
Allegro — 197x ⇩, Largo — 197x ⇩, Allegretto — 203x ⇩

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