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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 562x Score — 157x
Cembalo — 103x , Violino I — 118x , Violino II — 101x , Viola — 95x , Basso — 94x
Allegro — 110x , Largo — 154x , Allegretto — 103x

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 — 473x Score — 119x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 136x , Rondò III — 131x , Rondò IV — 126x

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 — 541x Score — 129x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 121x , Violino I — 107x , Violino II — 111x , Viola — 109x , Basso — 108x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 121x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 104x , Corno in Fa I — 108x , Corno in Fa II — 102x
Allegro — 104x , Larghetto — 89x , Rondò — 125x

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 — 631x Score — 104x
Violino — 91x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 94x
Sonata V — 92x , Sonata VI — 121x

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 — 476x Score — 101x
Cembalo — 89x , Violino — 88x

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 — 461x Score — 118x
Violino — 95x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 94x
Sonata I - Preludio — 86x , Sonata I - Rondò — 81x , Sonata II - Preludio — 92x , Sonata II - Rondò — 159x

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 — 491x Score — 115x
Cembalo — 92x , Violino I — 96x , Violino II — 93x , Viola — 92x , Viola with no bass clef — 85x , Basso — 123x , Flauto traverso I — 84x , Flauto traverso II — 94x , Corno I — 159x , Corno II — 91x
Allegro — 78x , Larghetto — 96x , Rondeau — 113x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 493x Score — 137x
Flauto — 116x , Violino — 105x , Viola — 113x , Violoncello — 140x
Andante poco adagio — 139x , Rondo - Allegretto — 97x

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 — 521x Score — 115x
Corno I e II — 89x , Flauto I e II — 87x , Violino I — 104x , Violino II — 84x , Viola — 90x , Cembalo — 105x , Basso — 91x
Allegro — 130x , Largo — 121x , Allegretto — 126x

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