Composers
Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)
Sample page — 488x ⇩
Score — 66x ⇩
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”.
Sample page — 392x ⇩
Score — 57x ⇩
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”.
Sample page — 496x ⇩
Score — 52x ⇩
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 47x ⇩, Violino I — 40x ⇩, Violino II — 46x ⇩, Viola — 40x ⇩, Basso — 42x ⇩, Flauto I o Oboe I — 38x ⇩, Flauto II o Oboe II — 41x ⇩, Corno in Fa I — 39x ⇩, Corno in Fa II — 40x ⇩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”.
Sample page — 550x ⇩
Score — 48x ⇩
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 — 407x ⇩
Score — 52x ⇩
Sonata III - Preludio e Rondò - Larghetto — 46x ⇩, Sonata IV - Preludio — 35x ⇩, Sonata IV - Rondò - And[ant]e — 43x ⇩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 — 404x ⇩
Score — 46x ⇩
Sonata I - Preludio — 40x ⇩, Sonata I - Rondò — 38x ⇩, Sonata II - Preludio — 39x ⇩, Sonata II - Rondò — 38x ⇩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 — 440x ⇩
Score — 57x ⇩
Cembalo — 40x ⇩, Violino I — 47x ⇩, Violino II — 46x ⇩, Viola — 45x ⇩, Viola with no bass clef — 39x ⇩, Basso — 49x ⇩, Flauto traverso I — 40x ⇩, Flauto traverso II — 47x ⇩, Corno I — 114x ⇩, Corno II — 50x ⇩The source is the autograph of the score (ms. DM02032002684), available at Conservatorio di musica San Pietro a Majella, Napoli.
Sample — 416x ⇩
Score — 64x ⇩
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”.
Sample — 470x ⇩
Score — 49x ⇩
Corno I e II — 40x ⇩, Flauto I e II — 38x ⇩, Violino I — 41x ⇩, Violino II — 36x ⇩, Viola — 37x ⇩, Cembalo — 43x ⇩, Basso — 39x ⇩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).
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