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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 553x Score — 126x
Cembalo — 90x , Violino I — 105x , Violino II — 93x , Viola — 87x , Basso — 86x
Allegro — 70x , Largo — 85x , Allegretto — 59x

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 — 453x Score — 106x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 92x , Rondò III — 93x , Rondò IV — 75x

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 — 536x Score — 108x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 100x , Violino I — 90x , Violino II — 96x , Viola — 89x , Basso — 88x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 88x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 88x , Corno in Fa I — 91x , Corno in Fa II — 86x
Allegro — 76x , Larghetto — 69x , Rondò — 83x

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 — 619x Score — 90x
Violino — 80x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 84x
Sonata V — 83x , Sonata VI — 83x

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 — 469x Score — 92x
Cembalo — 80x , Violino — 80x

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 — 453x Score — 107x
Violino — 86x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 84x
Sonata I - Preludio — 73x , Sonata I - Rondò — 69x , Sonata II - Preludio — 74x , Sonata II - Rondò — 65x

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 — 483x Score — 104x
Cembalo — 83x , Violino I — 91x , Violino II — 85x , Viola — 86x , Viola with no bass clef — 76x , Basso — 116x , Flauto traverso I — 79x , Flauto traverso II — 85x , Corno I — 153x , Corno II — 86x
Allegro — 68x , Larghetto — 80x , Rondeau — 76x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 471x Score — 116x
Flauto — 95x , Violino — 84x , Viola — 95x , Violoncello — 100x
Andante poco adagio — 85x , Rondo - Allegretto — 73x

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 — 514x Score — 106x
Corno I e II — 82x , Flauto I e II — 77x , Violino I — 96x , Violino II — 76x , Viola — 79x , Cembalo — 97x , Basso — 79x
Allegro — 120x , Largo — 110x , Allegretto — 115x

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