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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 484x Score — 63x
Cembalo — 49x , Violino I — 61x , Violino II — 49x , Viola — 48x , Basso — 45x
Allegro — 33x , Largo — 39x , Allegretto — 28x

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 — 388x Score — 54x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 32x , Rondò III — 36x , Rondò IV — 26x

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 — 493x Score — 50x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 44x , Violino I — 38x , Violino II — 41x , Viola — 39x , Basso — 40x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 36x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 39x , Corno in Fa I — 38x , Corno in Fa II — 38x
Allegro — 36x , Larghetto — 30x , Rondò — 33x

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 — 542x Score — 46x
Violino — 38x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 41x
Sonata V — 41x , Sonata VI — 44x

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 — 403x Score — 47x
Cembalo — 38x , Violino — 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 — 401x Score — 45x
Violino — 41x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 37x
Sonata I - Preludio — 35x , Sonata I - Rondò — 35x , Sonata II - Preludio — 37x , Sonata II - Rondò — 34x

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 — 436x Score — 55x
Cembalo — 38x , Violino I — 46x , Violino II — 43x , Viola — 42x , Viola with no bass clef — 37x , Basso — 41x , Flauto traverso I — 38x , Flauto traverso II — 44x , Corno I — 111x , Corno II — 45x
Allegro — 35x , Larghetto — 36x , Rondeau — 30x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 410x Score — 59x
Flauto — 45x , Violino — 34x , Viola — 37x , Violoncello — 35x
Andante poco adagio — 37x , Rondo - Allegretto — 31x

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 — 465x Score — 47x
Corno I e II — 38x , Flauto I e II — 36x , Violino I — 38x , Violino II — 34x , Viola — 35x , Cembalo — 42x , Basso — 38x
Allegro — 82x , Largo — 80x , Allegretto — 82x

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