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Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697 - 1773)

Sample page — 173x Score — 228x
Flauto traversiere — 240x , Violino I — 136x , Violino II — 138x , Basso — 136x
[1.] Allegro — 351x , [2.] Adagio — 279x , [3.] Presto — 254x

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 — 167x Score — 246x
Flauto traversiere — 138x , Violino I — 124x , Violino II — 119x , Basso — 117x , Basso ripieno — 124x
[1.] Allegro assai — 232x , [2.] Grave — 167x , [3.] Allegro — 275x

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 — 376x Score — 253x
Flauto traverso — 146x , Violino I — 120x , Violino II — 127x , Viola — 149x , Basso ripieno — 120x , Basso continuo — 141x
Allegro Spiritoso — 150x , Affettuoso — 261x , Vivace — 264x

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 — 286x Score — 181x
Flauto traverso I — 141x , Flauto traverso II — 141x , Oboe I — 125x , Oboe II — 124x , Violino concertato — 130x , Violino I — 126x , Violino II — 126x , Viola — 140x , Fagotto — 142x , Basso — 129x
[Allegro] — 292x , alla Siciliana — 239x , Allegro — 277x

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 — 473x Score — 257x
Flauto traversiere — 156x , Violino I — 138x , Violino II — 139x , Basso ripieno — 128x , Basso continuo — 138x
Allegro — 272x , Andante moderato — 201x , Allegro assai — 140x

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 — 348x Score — 170x
Flauto traversiere — 138x , Violino I — 120x , Violino II — 112x , Viola — 112x , Basso ripieno — 108x , Basso — 113x
Allegro — 258x , Amoroso — 184x , Allegro assai — 269x

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 — 483x Score — 157x
Flauto traversiere — 140x , Violino I — 117x , Violino II — 147x , Viola — 115x , Basso — 129x , Basso ripieno — 119x
Allegro — 202x , Arioso e mesto — 294x , Presto — 252x

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 — 418x Score — 182x
Flauto traverso — 153x , Violino I — 118x , Violino II — 122x , Viola — 123x , Basso continuo — 114x , Basso ripieno — 118x
Allegro — 173x , Lento con Sordini — 244x , Vivace — 261x

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 — 468x Score — 251x
Flauto traversiere — 186x , Violino I — 120x , Violino II — 132x , Viola — 144x , Basso — 129x , Basso ripieno — 120x
Allegro assai — 330x , Lento — 232x , Vivace — 318x

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 — 634x Score — 265x
Flauto traversiere — 154x , Violino I — 125x , Violino II — 123x , Viola — 129x , Basso — 123x , Basso ripieno — 120x

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 — 511x Score — 260x
Flauto traversiere — 175x , Violino I — 121x , Violino II — 121x , Viola — 121x , Basso — 120x , Basso ripieno — 116x , Fagotto — 118x
Allegro di molto — 128x , Arioso mà con affetto — 122x , Vivace assai — 235x

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 — 605x Score — 199x
Flauto — 178x , Violino I — 129x , Violino II — 136x , Viola — 127x , Basso — 125x
Allegretto — 123x , Amorevole — 114x , Presto — 241x

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 — 536x Score — 282x
Flauto traverso — 162x , Violino I — 132x , Violino II — 133x , Viola — 131x , Basso — 128x
Allegro di molto mà con brio — 245x , Larghetto — 132x , Presto — 257x

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 — 613x Score — 208x
Flauto traverso — 149x , Viola — 118x , Violino — 133x , Basso — 127x
Allegro — 224x , Larghetto — 127x , Presto — 328x

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 — 507x Score — 179x
Flauto traversiere I — 144x , Flauto traversiere II — 135x , Violino I — 129x , Violino II — 121x , Viola — 115x , Basso ripieno — 123x , Basso continuo — 117x
Allegro — 258x , Amoroso con Sordini — 315x , Presto — 105x

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 — 613x Score — 260x
Flauto traversiere — 164x , Violino I — 138x , Violino II — 131x , Viola — 172x , Basso ripieno / Violoncello — 140x , Basso continuo — 111x
Allegro assai — 129x , Lento — 156x , Vivace — 257x

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

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Sample — 491x Score — 202x
Flauto traversiere I — 138x , Flauto traversiere II — 140x , Basso — 141x
Affettuoso — 123x , Presto — 98x , Larghetto — 96x , Vivace — 101x

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 — 784x Score — 239x
Flauto traversiere I — 130x , Flauto traversiere II — 126x , Oboe I — 122x , Oboe II — 124x , Violino I — 122x , Violino II — 132x , Violino di ripieno — 118x , Viola — 123x , Fagotto — 130x , Basso — 130x
Vivace — 217x , Siciliana Larghetto — 112x , Allegro assai — 118x

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

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 537x Score — 196x
Flauto traversiere I — 149x , Flauto traversiere II — 144x , Basso — 137x
Adagio — 133x , Allegro — 132x , Largo — 135x , Allegro — 128x

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 — 470x Score — 169x
Flauto dolce — 152x , Flauto traversiere — 216x , Basso — 128x
Affettuoso — 102x , Alla breve — 90x , Larghetto — 114x , Vivace — 98x

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

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 508x Score — 172x
Flauto traversiere I — 178x , Flauto traversiere II — 143x , Basso — 180x
Grave — 136x , Allegro ma non troppo — 113x , Larghetto — 98x , Presto — 111x

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

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 620x Score — 191x
Flauto traverso — 187x , Basso — 148x
Andante moderato — 134x , Presto — 129x , Largo — 123x , Pastorale — 121x

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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