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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 532x Score — 97x
Cembalo — 70x , Violino I — 83x , Violino II — 69x , Viola — 66x , Basso — 64x
Allegro — 51x , Largo — 63x , Allegretto — 44x

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 — 424x Score — 83x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 67x , Rondò III — 69x , Rondò IV — 52x

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 — 516x Score — 81x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 71x , Violino I — 63x , Violino II — 68x , Viola — 62x , Basso — 60x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 61x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 59x , Corno in Fa I — 61x , Corno in Fa II — 60x
Allegro — 55x , Larghetto — 49x , Rondò — 57x

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 — 590x Score — 65x
Violino — 58x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 62x
Sonata V — 65x , Sonata VI — 67x

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 — 446x Score — 70x
Cembalo — 56x , Violino — 59x

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 — 431x Score — 78x
Violino — 64x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 60x
Sonata I - Preludio — 58x , Sonata I - Rondò — 53x , Sonata II - Preludio — 55x , Sonata II - Rondò — 50x

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 — 460x Score — 76x
Cembalo — 60x , Violino I — 63x , Violino II — 65x , Viola — 63x , Viola with no bass clef — 56x , Basso — 85x , Flauto traverso I — 59x , Flauto traverso II — 65x , Corno I — 132x , Corno II — 66x
Allegro — 51x , Larghetto — 61x , Rondeau — 54x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 443x Score — 84x
Flauto — 67x , Violino — 57x , Viola — 67x , Violoncello — 65x
Andante poco adagio — 62x , Rondo - Allegretto — 53x

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 — 489x Score — 73x
Corno I e II — 57x , Flauto I e II — 54x , Violino I — 66x , Violino II — 53x , Viola — 56x , Cembalo — 73x , Basso — 56x
Allegro — 103x , Largo — 92x , Allegretto — 97x

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