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Paisiello, Giovanni (1740 - 1816)

Sample page — 540x Score — 106x
Cembalo — 76x , Violino I — 91x , Violino II — 77x , Viola — 72x , Basso — 71x
Allegro — 54x , Largo — 69x , Allegretto — 47x

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 — 434x Score — 92x
Cembalo o PIano-forte — 33x , Violino — 35x
Rondò II — 75x , Rondò III — 77x , Rondò IV — 60x

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 — 522x Score — 91x
Cembalo o Pianoforte — 81x , Violino I — 72x , Violino II — 77x , Viola — 71x , Basso — 69x , Flauto I o Oboe I — 70x , Flauto II o Oboe II — 69x , Corno in Fa I — 72x , Corno in Fa II — 69x
Allegro — 63x , Larghetto — 54x , Rondò — 65x

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 — 598x Score — 73x
Violino — 65x , Cembalo / Pianoforte — 69x
Sonata V — 70x , Sonata VI — 71x

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 — 454x Score — 78x
Cembalo — 65x , Violino — 66x

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 — 438x Score — 86x
Violino — 71x , Cembalo o Pianoforte — 67x
Sonata I - Preludio — 63x , Sonata I - Rondò — 57x , Sonata II - Preludio — 61x , Sonata II - Rondò — 54x

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 — 468x Score — 86x
Cembalo — 66x , Violino I — 69x , Violino II — 71x , Viola — 69x , Viola with no bass clef — 62x , Basso — 95x , Flauto traverso I — 65x , Flauto traverso II — 71x , Corno I — 138x , Corno II — 72x
Allegro — 55x , Larghetto — 64x , Rondeau — 61x

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

Version 1.3
Sample — 453x Score — 96x
Flauto — 76x , Violino — 66x , Viola — 76x , Violoncello — 75x
Andante poco adagio — 69x , Rondo - Allegretto — 58x

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 — 495x Score — 80x
Corno I e II — 64x , Flauto I e II — 60x , Violino I — 72x , Violino II — 59x , Viola — 62x , Cembalo — 80x , Basso — 62x
Allegro — 107x , Largo — 95x , Allegretto — 101x

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