SchW A1:002

Johann Adolph Scheibe

Concerto a flauto traverso, violino 1mo, violino 2do, viola & violoncello

SchW A1:002

Werner Hans Rudolph Rosenkrantz Giedde (1756–1816), who was an able amateur flute player, began his employment at the court in 1768 as a page to Queen Dowager Juliane Marie, later advancing to Crown Prince Frederik’s page of the chamber in 1775. The majority of Giedde’s Collection consists of flute music which he must have started to gather in the 1770s. Thus Scheibe’s flute concertos (SchW A1:005, A1:007) were most likely acquired directly through the composer or from Breitkopf in Leipzig. The transcripts of both concertos were carried out by the same professional copyist, whose handwriting according to Bittman (1976) is not seen in other manuscript material in The Royal Library. Also the paper type of both concertos is the same and may tentatively be dated to around the second half of the eighteenth century. The flute concertos might have been composed during Scheibe's early years.

Key: A major

Sources

Score

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

Source presumably lost.

Parts, transcript

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Copy, Parts, Fair copy, Incomplete]

5 parts.

Source consists of five parts (fl., vl.1, vl.2, va., vc.), in all five bifolios of which the va. part is also employed as folder with a title page on fol. 1r. However, the part is incomplete lacking fol. 2; as this part has also been used as folder it has presumably been so worn that the bifolio was accidentally divided into two folios. Same hand throughout; partly visible watermark which most likely dates from the second half of the eighteenth century; paper of a fairly dense quality.

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København Gieddes samling VIII, 36 (a) mu6304.2472. Digitisation

RISM_A_II 150.205.168.

Flauto traverso 1 bifolio; 33.3x49.7 cm. In 2o; upright format; music (fols. 1r–2v); in all a single bifolio. Hand-ruled paper, 14 staves (10mm; 14-stave (?) rastrum used) in light brown ink and music in black ink; bottom stave on fol. 2r has not been used. A clean copy with only a single correction in ink. Bar numbers added in a more recent pencil, presumably in connection with the preparation of a modern transcription; the total number of bars of each movement noted in red pencil at the final bars, most likely an early, near-contemporary addition. Watermark: at the top centre of the bifolio the countermark '& | Zoonen' (J. Honig and Zoonen) is partly visible. Paper of a fairly dense quality.

Violino 1 1 bifolio; 32.7x49.2 cm. In 2o; upright format; music (fols. 1r–2v); in all a single bifolio. Hand-ruled paper, 14 staves (10 mm; 14-stave (?) rastrum used) in light brown ink and music in black ink; bottom seven staves on fol. 1r have not been used. A clean copy with only very few corrections. Bar numbers added in a more recent pencil, presumably in connection with the preparation of a modern transcription; the total number of bars of each movement noted in red pencil at the final bars, most likely an early, near-contemporary addition. Watermark: no countermark, but an emblem consisting of the base of a beehive placed in a coat-of-arms with no ornaments is partly visible (same as vl.2). Paper of a fairly dense quality.

Violino 2 1 bifolio; 33.3x49.8 cm. In 2o; upright format; music (fols. 1r–2v); in all a single bifolio. Hand-ruled paper, 14 staves (10 mm; 14-stave (?) rastrum used) in light brown ink and music in black ink; bottom stave on fol. 2v and bottom eight staves on fol. 1r have not been used. A clean copy with very few changes in ink. Bar numbers added in a more recent pencil, presumably in connection with the preparation of a modern transcription; total number bars of each movement noted in red pencil at the final bars, most likely an early near-contemporary, addition. Watermark: no countermark, but an emblem consisting of the base of a beehive placed in a coat-of-arms with no ornaments is partly visible (same as vl.1). Paper of a fairly dense quality.

Viola 1 folio; 33.2x24.9 cm. Title page (fol. 1r): <36> <WHRR Giedde> Concerto | â | Flauto Traverso. | Violino 1 mo | Violino 2 do | Viola | &. | Violoncello | Dall Sigr: Scheibe_. In 2o; upright format; title page (fol. 1r), music (fol. 1v); in all a single folio, originally a bifolio of which fol. 2 is missing, presumably due to the part being used as a folder. Hand-ruled paper, 14 staves (10 mm; 14-stave (?) rastrum used) in light brown ink and music in black ink. A clean copy. Bar numbers added in a more recent pencil, presumably in connection with the preparation of a modern transcription. Watermark: no countermark but an emblem consisting of the lower of base of a beehive in top left-hand corner is partly visible. Paper of a fairly dense quality.

Violoncello 1 folio; 32.9x24.6 cm. In 2o; upright format; music (fol. 1r–v); in all a single folio. Hand-ruled paper, 14 staves (10 mm; 14-stave (?) rastrum used) in light brown ink and music in black ink; bottom stave on fol. 1v has not been used. A clean copy. Bar numbers added in a more recent pencil, presumably in connection with the preparation of a modern transcription; total number of bars of each movement noted in red pencil at the final bars, most likely an early, near-contemporary addition. Watermark: no countermark, but at the bottom left-hand corner of fol. 1r an emblem, consisting of the base of beehive with no lettering and no decoration, is partly visible. Paper of a fairly dense quality.