III sonate per il cembalo solo

SchW A4:Coll.003

Includes:

Sonata I SchW A4:107
Sonata II SchW A4:108
Sonata III SchW A4:109

The collection contains three sonatas for solo harpsichord. The only surviving source to this collection is possibly a late eighteenth-century transcript. None of the sonatas agree with the incipits of the Breitkopf catalogues of 1762–63 or any of the other solo sonatas which have survived (SchW A4:006, A4:007, A4:008, A4:Coll.005). The watermark suggests that the transcript was produced sometime after 1753.

Instrumentation: cemb.cembalo (harpsichord)

Sources

Score, transcript

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Score, Fair copy, Complete]

10 folios; 32.6x21 cm.

Title page (folder, fol. 1r): III Sonate | da Scheibe. | <N.W. Gade>

In 2^o; upright format, consisting of 5 nested bifolios of which the first also functions as folder; title page (fol. 1r), blank page (fol. 1v), secondary title page (fol. 2r), music (fols. 2v–10r), blank page (fol. 10v); in all 10 folios. Hand-ruled paper, 14 staves (9 mm; single rastrum used) in brown ink and music in black ink; on some pages the bottom staves have not been used due to new movements. A clean copy. The source contains three sonatas: 'Sonata 1^ma' (fols. 2v–4v); 'Sonata 2^do' (fols. 4v–7r); and 'Sonata' (fols. 7v–10r).

Watermark: two distinct watermarks are found: 1) the folder has a watermark consisting of the countermark 'C & I Honig' and the 'Pro Patria' emblem; and 2) the countermark which is a crowned 'GR' and the emblem consisting of a crowned circle with a lion holding a wand with a hat on top and the text 'libertate propa ejusque' and 'vryheyt' (Heawood:3149), which may be dated to around 1753.

Written in ink.

In original limp folder of a different paper than the contents of the folder; on the upper cover of the folder shelf marks are added in pencil of which one does not seem to be related to The Royal Library ('2966'). Paper of a dense quality.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II 79, mu7502.2138. Link to external resource

Digitisation

RISM_A_II 150.202.865.

Bibliography

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SchW

Johann Adolph Scheibe. A Catalogue of His Works

III sonate per il cembalo solo

Sources

Score, transcript

Bibliography