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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 554x Score — 128x
Cembalo — 92x , Violino I — 107x , Violino II — 94x , Viola — 88x , Basso — 87x
Allegro — 71x , Largo — 86x , Allegretto — 60x

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 — 454x Score — 109x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 94x , Rondò III — 95x , Rondò IV — 77x

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 — 536x Score — 109x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 102x , Violino I — 92x , Violino II — 96x , Viola — 90x , Basso — 89x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 91x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 89x , Corno in Fa I — 92x , Corno in Fa II — 88x
Allegro — 77x , Larghetto — 70x , Rondò — 84x

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 — 621x Score — 92x
Violino — 82x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 85x
Sonata V — 84x , Sonata VI — 84x

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 — 469x Score — 93x
Cembalo — 82x , Violino — 82x

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 — 453x Score — 108x
Violino — 87x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 85x
Sonata I - Preludio — 74x , Sonata I - Rondò — 70x , Sonata II - Preludio — 75x , Sonata II - Rondò — 66x

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 — 483x Score — 104x
Cembalo — 84x , Violino I — 91x , Violino II — 87x , Viola — 86x , Viola with no bass clef — 76x , Basso — 116x , Flauto traverso I — 79x , Flauto traverso II — 87x , Corno I — 154x , Corno II — 86x
Allegro — 69x , Larghetto — 80x , Rondeau — 76x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 472x Score — 118x
Flauto — 98x , Violino — 87x , Viola — 97x , Violoncello — 103x
Andante poco adagio — 87x , Rondo - Allegretto — 75x

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 — 514x Score — 107x
Corno I e II — 82x , Flauto I e II — 78x , Violino I — 96x , Violino II — 76x , Viola — 80x , Cembalo — 97x , Basso — 79x
Allegro — 120x , Largo — 110x , Allegretto — 115x

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