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Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697 - 1773)

Sample page — 101x Score — 74x
Flauto traversiere — 86x , Violino I — 50x , Violino II — 52x , Basso — 53x
[1.] Allegro — 95x , [2.] Adagio — 70x , [3.] Presto — 70x

The source is a manuscript of the parts, Berlin, D-B, Mus.ms. 18019/7 RISM ID Nr.: 452000033. Title: “Allegro [Incipit] | Concerto à 4. | Flauto Traversiero | Violino Primo | Violino Secondo | e | Basso | di Quantz.”.

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Sample page — 101x Score — 79x
Flauto traversiere — 66x , Violino I — 50x , Violino II — 45x , Basso — 48x , Basso ripieno — 47x
[1.] Allegro assai — 51x , [2.] Grave — 46x , [3.] Allegro — 56x

The source is a manuscript of the parts, Berlin, D-B, Mus.ms. 18019/8, RISM ID Nr.: 452000034. Title: “Allegro | assai [Incipit] | Concerto à 4. | Flauto Traversiero | Violino Primo | Violino Secondo | e | Basso | di Quantz."

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Sample page — 280x Score — 91x
Flauto traverso — 72x , Violino I — 47x , Violino II — 48x , Viola — 51x , Basso ripieno — 46x , Basso continuo — 51x
Allegro Spiritoso — 53x , Affettuoso — 57x , Vivace — 53x

The sources are: a) manuscript of parts, Berlin, (Berlin, (D-Bsa)), SA 2876, RISM ID no.: 469287600. Caption title: “CONCERTO. | [incipit] | Per il | Flauto Trav: Concertato. | Violino Primo. | Violino Secondo. | Viola è Basso Rip: | Basso Con Continuo. | Del Sigr: Quantz”; b) manuscript of parts, Berlin (Berlin, (D-Bsa)), SA 2877, RISM ID no.: 469287701.

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Sample page — 218x Score — 69x
Flauto traverso I — 57x , Flauto traverso II — 47x , Oboe I — 43x , Oboe II — 40x , Violino concertato — 41x , Violino I — 42x , Violino II — 38x , Viola — 42x , Fagotto — 42x , Basso — 46x
[Allegro] — 45x , alla Siciliana — 48x , Allegro — 55x

The source is a manuscript of the score (copy by: Agricola, Johann Friedrich <1720-1774>), Berlin, Sing- Akademie zu Berlin, Notenarchiv (D- Bsa), SA 2799 (13), RISM ID no.: 469279913. Caption title (by Agricola): “Concerto grosso [later, with pencil: "fortasse Quanz.”]”.

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Sample page — 402x Score — 105x
Flauto traversiere — 83x , Violino I — 64x , Violino II — 64x , Basso ripieno — 60x , Basso continuo — 60x
Allegro — 49x , Andante moderato — 45x , Allegro assai — 58x

The sources are two manuscripts of parts, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B), KHM 3556 and KHM 3557, RISM ID no.: 1001068130 and RISM ID no.: 1001068135. Caption titles: “pour Potsdam. | Nro: 13. | [music incipit] | Concerto, à 4. | Flauto Traversiero, | Violino Primo, | Violino Secondo, | e | Basso. | di Quantz.” and: “pour Charlottenbourg. | Nro: 13. | [music incipit] | Concerto, à 4. | Flauto Traversiero, | Violino Primo, | Violino Secondo, | e | Basso. | di Quantz.”.

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Sample page — 273x Score — 89x
Flauto traversiere — 63x , Violino I — 47x , Violino II — 42x , Viola — 43x , Basso ripieno — 43x , Basso — 43x
Allegro — 43x , Amoroso — 48x , Allegro assai — 48x

The source is a manuscript of parts, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B), KHM 3839, RISM ID no.: 1001002031. Cover title: “pour Potsdam. | Nro: 137. | [music incipit] | Concerto, a 5. | Flauto Traversiero, | Violino Primo, | Violino Secondo, | Violetta, | e | Basso. | di Quantz.”.

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Sample page — 376x Score — 83x
Flauto traversiere — 67x , Violino I — 46x , Violino II — 52x , Viola — 46x , Basso — 51x , Basso ripieno — 47x
Allegro — 39x , Arioso e mesto — 49x , Presto — 45x

The sources are: a) a manuscript of parts, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B), KHM 3904, RISM ID no.: 1001051654. Cover title: “pour Charlottenbourg, | Nro: 161. | [music incipit] | Concerto, â 5, | Flauto Traversiero, | Violino Primo, | Violino Secondo, | Violetta, | e | Basso. | di Quantz.”; b) a manuscript of parts, Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB (D-Dl), Mus. 2470-O-1, RISM ID no.: 212002517. Cover title: “Schranck No: II. | 21. Fach 6. Lage. | [red ink:] No: 6.) Concerto. | [black ink:] Flaut: conc: VV.ni V.la e Basso. | 6. St.[immen] | Del Sig.r Quantz. | [incipit] {{brk}} [on second cover:] 6. | [incipit] | Concerto, à 5, | Flauto Traversiero, | Violino Primo, | Violino Secondo, | Violetta, | e | Basso, | di Quantz {{brk}} [parts, caption title:] Concerto”.

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Sample page — 336x Score — 104x
Flauto traverso — 71x , Violino I — 49x , Violino II — 49x , Viola — 51x , Basso continuo — 47x , Basso ripieno — 47x
Allegro — 35x , Lento con Sordini — 55x , Vivace — 47x

Source is a manuscript of separate parts, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B), KHM 4191, RISM ID no.: 1001051654. Cover title is: “pour Potsdam | No: 300 | [music incipit] | Concerto, à 5, | Flauto Traverso, | Due Violini, | Violetta | e | Basso. | di Quantz.”. RISM reports that, according to ThouretK 1895 (which refers to "Nicolai: Anekdoten III"), Quantz had only completed the first two movements when he died. The third movement is said to have been "designed" by Friedrich II and "executed" by Agricola. There is no evidence of this from the full source.

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Sample page — 391x Score — 100x
Flauto traversiere — 81x , Violino I — 49x , Violino II — 51x , Viola — 46x , Basso — 49x , Basso ripieno — 49x
Allegro assai — 52x , Lento — 45x , Vivace — 45x

The sources of Concerto per Flauto traversiere QV 5:173 GroF 648, are: a) the manuscript of the score, Berlin, Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Notenarchiv (D-Bsa), SA 2941, RISM ID no.: 469294100, caption title: “Concerto. Flauto Trav. del Sigr. Quantz.”; b) a manuscript of separate parts, D-B, KHM 3718, RISM ID no.: 463371800, caption title: “pour Potsdam. | Nro: 84. | [music incipit] | Concerto, à 5. | Flauto Traversiero, | Violino Primo, | Violino Secondo, | Violetta, | e | Basso | di Quantz”.

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Sample page — 556x Score — 110x
Flauto traversiere — 79x , Violino I — 48x , Violino II — 54x , Viola — 58x , Basso — 52x , Basso ripieno — 51x

Sources of Concerto in A minor QV 5:236 are: a) manuscript of separate parts, KHM 3971, RISM ID no.: 463397100; b) manuscript of separate parts, KHM 3970, RISM ID no.: 463397000. Both sources are in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B).

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Sample page — 449x Score — 110x
Flauto traversiere — 98x , Violino I — 47x , Violino II — 48x , Viola — 44x , Basso — 48x , Basso ripieno — 53x , Fagotto — 48x
Allegro di molto — 54x , Arioso mà con affetto — 55x , Vivace assai — 52x

Source is a ms. of separate parts, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B), KHM 3957, RISM ID no.: 100101187. Cover title: “pour sans Souci | No: 186. | [music incipit] | Concerto, a 5. | Flauto Traversiero | Violino Primo | Violino Secondo | Violetta | e | Basso. | di Quantz.”

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Sample page — 536x Score — 106x
Flauto — 99x , Violino I — 53x , Violino II — 51x , Viola — 50x , Basso — 55x
Allegretto — 47x , Amorevole — 42x , Presto — 41x

The source of Concerto for Flauto in G minor (QV 5:206) is the manuscript of the score, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung (D-B) Mus.ms. 18019/ 30, RISM ID no.: 452000055. Caption title: “No: 6. | Partitur | Concerto per il Flauto G moll | Flauto | Violino 1 | Violino 2. | Viola e | Basso | dell | Quanz.”

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Sample page — 472x Score — 120x
Flauto traverso — 77x , Violino I — 51x , Violino II — 50x , Viola — 51x , Basso — 49x
Allegro di molto mà con brio — 58x , Larghetto — 54x , Presto — 51x

Source is a ms. of separate parts KHM 4114, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabtei-lung (D-B), RISM Id no.: 463411400. Cover title: “pour Charlottenbourg | Nro: 262. | [music incipit] | Concerto, à 5, | Flauto Traverso, | Due Violini, | Violetta, | e | Basso. | di Quantz”.

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Sample page — 539x Score — 112x
Flauto traverso — 80x , Viola — 53x , Violino — 62x , Basso — 51x
Allegro — 79x , Larghetto — 67x , Presto — 62x

Source is a ms. of separate parts SA 2933, Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Notenarchiv (D-Bsa), Berlin, RISM Id no.: 469293300.

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Sample page — 446x Score — 94x
Flauto traversiere I — 68x , Flauto traversiere II — 60x , Violino I — 55x , Violino II — 48x , Viola — 48x , Basso ripieno — 53x , Basso continuo — 51x
Allegro — 60x , Amoroso con Sordini — 54x , Presto — 45x

Source is a ms. of separate parts Mus. 2470-O-11, SLUB Dresden, Digitale Biblio­thek, RISM Id no.: 212002524. There are two sets of parts in this SLUB file, the transcribed one without oboes and bassoon, the second one with them, added by Pisendel. In QV the first one is 6,8a, the second one 6,8b.

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Sample — 528x Score — 97x
Flauto traversiere — 65x , Violino I — 47x , Violino II — 47x , Viola — 49x , Basso ripieno / Violoncello — 48x , Basso continuo — 44x
Allegro assai — 54x , Lento — 48x , Vivace — 54x

Source is a ms. of separate parts KHM 3718, online available at Staats­bibliothek zu Berlin.

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Sample — 416x Score — 114x
Flauto traversiere I — 72x , Flauto traversiere II — 67x , Basso — 63x
Affettuoso — 54x , Presto — 41x , Larghetto — 39x , Vivace — 37x

The source is a ms. of separate parts Mus. 2470-Q-25, SLUB Dresden: Digitale Biblio­thek.

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 713x Score — 65x
Flauto traversiere I — 51x , Flauto traversiere II — 44x , Oboe I — 42x , Oboe II — 41x , Violino I — 43x , Violino II — 42x , Violino di ripieno — 43x , Viola — 41x , Fagotto — 45x , Basso — 46x
Vivace — 42x , Siciliana Larghetto — 43x , Allegro assai — 50x

Source is a ms. of separate parts Mus. 2470-O-10, SLUB Dresden, Digitale Bibliothek.

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 449x Score — 115x
Flauto traversiere I — 73x , Flauto traversiere II — 56x , Basso — 63x
Adagio — 66x , Allegro — 70x , Largo — 68x , Allegro — 67x

Source is the ms Mus. 2474-Q-7 of SLUB Dresden, Digitale Bibliothek. The original label has a reference to „Sig. Graun“, but SLUB assigns the sonata to J. J. Quantz.

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Sample — 405x Score — 90x
Flauto dolce — 67x , Flauto traversiere — 82x , Basso — 56x
Affettuoso — 47x , Alla breve — 37x , Larghetto — 49x , Vivace — 38x

Source is ms Mus.2470-Q-2, SLUB Dresden: Digitale Bibliothek.

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 439x Score — 91x
Flauto traversiere I — 83x , Flauto traversiere II — 54x , Basso — 73x
Grave — 71x , Allegro ma non troppo — 42x , Larghetto — 41x , Presto — 40x

Source is the ms Mus. 2470-Q-17, SLUB Dresden, Digitale Bibliothek.

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 533x Score — 98x
Flauto traverso — 73x , Basso — 55x
Andante moderato — 59x , Presto — 56x , Largo — 53x , Pastorale — 50x

The Bb major sonata is included in  a manuscript collection of twenty sonatas for flute and bass, Mus.ms 18020, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Caption title: „Sonate / à / Flauto Traverso Solo / è / Cembalo / Da Gio: Giacchino Quantz“.

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