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Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697 - 1773)

Sample page — 160x Score — 187x
Flauto traversiere — 195x , Violino I — 119x , Violino II — 122x , Basso — 121x
[1.] Allegro — 263x , [2.] Adagio — 182x , [3.] Presto — 130x

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 — 153x Score — 200x
Flauto traversiere — 122x , Violino I — 110x , Violino II — 104x , Basso — 106x , Basso ripieno — 108x
[1.] Allegro assai — 139x , [2.] Grave — 94x , [3.] Allegro — 154x

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 — 352x Score — 203x
Flauto traverso — 132x , Violino I — 106x , Violino II — 111x , Viola — 131x , Basso ripieno — 106x , Basso continuo — 103x
Allegro Spiritoso — 101x , Affettuoso — 171x , Vivace — 163x

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 — 274x Score — 167x
Flauto traverso I — 126x , Flauto traverso II — 129x , Oboe I — 113x , Oboe II — 106x , Violino concertato — 112x , Violino I — 110x , Violino II — 109x , Viola — 124x , Fagotto — 122x , Basso — 111x
[Allegro] — 197x , alla Siciliana — 117x , Allegro — 178x

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 — 457x Score — 213x
Flauto traversiere — 140x , Violino I — 124x , Violino II — 121x , Basso ripieno — 115x , Basso continuo — 119x
Allegro — 181x , Andante moderato — 94x , Allegro assai — 104x

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 — 326x Score — 152x
Flauto traversiere — 121x , Violino I — 104x , Violino II — 95x , Viola — 96x , Basso ripieno — 94x , Basso — 99x
Allegro — 158x , Amoroso — 99x , Allegro assai — 162x

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 — 437x Score — 139x
Flauto traversiere — 127x , Violino I — 100x , Violino II — 111x , Viola — 101x , Basso — 113x , Basso ripieno — 101x
Allegro — 107x , Arioso e mesto — 182x , Presto — 136x

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 — 397x Score — 167x
Flauto traverso — 137x , Violino I — 104x , Violino II — 109x , Viola — 106x , Basso continuo — 103x , Basso ripieno — 102x
Allegro — 81x , Lento con Sordini — 163x , Vivace — 168x

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 — 444x Score — 202x
Flauto traversiere — 139x , Violino I — 102x , Violino II — 103x , Viola — 103x , Basso — 99x , Basso ripieno — 103x
Allegro assai — 210x , Lento — 93x , Vivace — 202x

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 — 612x Score — 214x
Flauto traversiere — 136x , Violino I — 108x , Violino II — 105x , Viola — 115x , Basso — 111x , Basso ripieno — 107x

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 — 497x Score — 213x
Flauto traversiere — 157x , Violino I — 104x , Violino II — 105x , Viola — 102x , Basso — 101x , Basso ripieno — 104x , Fagotto — 106x
Allegro di molto — 95x , Arioso mà con affetto — 104x , Vivace assai — 126x

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 — 591x Score — 180x
Flauto — 161x , Violino I — 115x , Violino II — 116x , Viola — 112x , Basso — 111x
Allegretto — 99x , Amorevole — 93x , Presto — 138x

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 — 526x Score — 237x
Flauto traverso — 142x , Violino I — 115x , Violino II — 116x , Viola — 115x , Basso — 114x
Allegro di molto mà con brio — 156x , Larghetto — 106x , Presto — 156x

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 — 598x Score — 180x
Flauto traverso — 132x , Viola — 104x , Violino — 119x , Basso — 110x
Allegro — 131x , Larghetto — 106x , Presto — 218x

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 — 498x Score — 158x
Flauto traversiere I — 127x , Flauto traversiere II — 117x , Violino I — 112x , Violino II — 105x , Viola — 104x , Basso ripieno — 109x , Basso continuo — 105x
Allegro — 165x , Amoroso con Sordini — 195x , Presto — 87x

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 — 603x Score — 201x
Flauto traversiere — 119x , Violino I — 120x , Violino II — 115x , Viola — 123x , Basso ripieno / Violoncello — 114x , Basso continuo — 98x
Allegro assai — 103x , Lento — 100x , Vivace — 132x

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

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Sample — 475x Score — 179x
Flauto traversiere I — 123x , Flauto traversiere II — 123x , Basso — 121x
Affettuoso — 109x , Presto — 81x , Larghetto — 83x , Vivace — 87x

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

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Sample — 770x Score — 184x
Flauto traversiere I — 115x , Flauto traversiere II — 105x , Oboe I — 103x , Oboe II — 107x , Violino I — 109x , Violino II — 113x , Violino di ripieno — 106x , Viola — 106x , Fagotto — 108x , Basso — 109x
Vivace — 120x , Siciliana Larghetto — 102x , Allegro assai — 109x

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

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Sample — 511x Score — 178x
Flauto traversiere I — 129x , Flauto traversiere II — 118x , Basso — 116x
Adagio — 119x , Allegro — 122x , Largo — 119x , Allegro — 116x

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 — 457x Score — 150x
Flauto dolce — 123x , Flauto traversiere — 167x , Basso — 112x
Affettuoso — 89x , Alla breve — 78x , Larghetto — 99x , Vivace — 82x

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

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 493x Score — 149x
Flauto traversiere I — 144x , Flauto traversiere II — 111x , Basso — 142x
Grave — 123x , Allegro ma non troppo — 97x , Larghetto — 87x , Presto — 90x

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

Version 1.0 with a revised editorial format.
Sample — 594x Score — 167x
Flauto traverso — 142x , Basso — 116x
Andante moderato — 113x , Presto — 115x , Largo — 108x , Pastorale — 105x

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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