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Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697 - 1773)

Sample page — 153x Score — 168x
Flauto traversiere — 173x , Violino I — 111x , Violino II — 111x , Basso — 116x
[1.] Allegro — 202x , [2.] Adagio — 127x , [3.] Presto — 104x

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 — 147x Score — 176x
Flauto traversiere — 117x , Violino I — 105x , Violino II — 99x , Basso — 102x , Basso ripieno — 104x
[1.] Allegro assai — 83x , [2.] Grave — 78x , [3.] Allegro — 102x

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 — 343x Score — 179x
Flauto traverso — 128x , Violino I — 102x , Violino II — 101x , Viola — 126x , Basso ripieno — 98x , Basso continuo — 97x
Allegro Spiritoso — 89x , Affettuoso — 116x , Vivace — 97x

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 — 269x Score — 151x
Flauto traverso I — 117x , Flauto traverso II — 122x , Oboe I — 106x , Oboe II — 97x , Violino concertato — 102x , Violino I — 101x , Violino II — 100x , Viola — 115x , Fagotto — 113x , Basso — 105x
[Allegro] — 134x , alla Siciliana — 96x , Allegro — 122x

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 — 450x Score — 187x
Flauto traversiere — 135x , Violino I — 116x , Violino II — 116x , Basso ripieno — 111x , Basso continuo — 111x
Allegro — 124x , Andante moderato — 83x , Allegro assai — 91x

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 — 322x Score — 144x
Flauto traversiere — 117x , Violino I — 100x , Violino II — 92x , Viola — 91x , Basso ripieno — 89x , Basso — 93x
Allegro — 103x , Amoroso — 86x , Allegro assai — 104x

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 — 428x Score — 130x
Flauto traversiere — 124x , Violino I — 93x , Violino II — 103x , Viola — 97x , Basso — 104x , Basso ripieno — 94x
Allegro — 73x , Arioso e mesto — 113x , Presto — 85x

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 — 390x Score — 156x
Flauto traverso — 131x , Violino I — 96x , Violino II — 97x , Viola — 99x , Basso continuo — 95x , Basso ripieno — 96x
Allegro — 66x , Lento con Sordini — 103x , Vivace — 118x

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 — 439x Score — 179x
Flauto traversiere — 130x , Violino I — 97x , Violino II — 97x , Viola — 94x , Basso — 95x , Basso ripieno — 98x
Allegro assai — 150x , Lento — 78x , Vivace — 127x

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 — 602x Score — 191x
Flauto traversiere — 130x , Violino I — 99x , Violino II — 99x , Viola — 109x , Basso — 100x , Basso ripieno — 102x

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 — 493x Score — 193x
Flauto traversiere — 152x , Violino I — 99x , Violino II — 100x , Viola — 96x , Basso — 98x , Basso ripieno — 100x , Fagotto — 100x
Allegro di molto — 82x , Arioso mà con affetto — 95x , Vivace assai — 93x

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 — 584x Score — 169x
Flauto — 155x , Violino I — 108x , Violino II — 110x , Viola — 106x , Basso — 106x
Allegretto — 85x , Amorevole — 77x , Presto — 82x

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 — 519x Score — 212x
Flauto traverso — 133x , Violino I — 108x , Violino II — 106x , Viola — 105x , Basso — 106x
Allegro di molto mà con brio — 107x , Larghetto — 91x , Presto — 104x

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 — 589x Score — 172x
Flauto traverso — 125x , Viola — 98x , Violino — 112x , Basso — 104x
Allegro — 113x , Larghetto — 98x , Presto — 158x

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 — 493x Score — 150x
Flauto traversiere I — 120x , Flauto traversiere II — 112x , Violino I — 107x , Violino II — 101x , Viola — 100x , Basso ripieno — 104x , Basso continuo — 101x
Allegro — 101x , Amoroso con Sordini — 127x , Presto — 75x

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 — 594x Score — 176x
Flauto traversiere — 113x , Violino I — 112x , Violino II — 106x , Viola — 115x , Basso ripieno / Violoncello — 108x , Basso continuo — 90x
Allegro assai — 86x , Lento — 85x , Vivace — 86x

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

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Sample — 463x Score — 166x
Flauto traversiere I — 118x , Flauto traversiere II — 115x , Basso — 113x
Affettuoso — 95x , Presto — 69x , Larghetto — 74x , Vivace — 74x

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 — 762x Score — 157x
Flauto traversiere I — 111x , Flauto traversiere II — 100x , Oboe I — 96x , Oboe II — 98x , Violino I — 101x , Violino II — 101x , Violino di ripieno — 97x , Viola — 95x , Fagotto — 102x , Basso — 104x
Vivace — 96x , Siciliana Larghetto — 86x , Allegro assai — 99x

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

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 503x Score — 168x
Flauto traversiere I — 120x , Flauto traversiere II — 107x , Basso — 110x
Adagio — 101x , Allegro — 108x , Largo — 104x , Allegro — 101x

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 — 452x Score — 145x
Flauto dolce — 116x , Flauto traversiere — 148x , Basso — 103x
Affettuoso — 77x , Alla breve — 66x , Larghetto — 85x , Vivace — 69x

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

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 483x Score — 142x
Flauto traversiere I — 136x , Flauto traversiere II — 105x , Basso — 132x
Grave — 110x , Allegro ma non troppo — 81x , Larghetto — 76x , Presto — 77x

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

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 587x Score — 158x
Flauto traverso — 133x , Basso — 110x
Andante moderato — 98x , Presto — 97x , Largo — 94x , Pastorale — 93x

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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