Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Abel, Carl Friedrich
9 sonatas for viola da gamba and basso continuo, AbelWV B85, B97, B103, B105-B110 (ZadA 2:50, 2:61A, 2:67, 2:69-2:74; WKO deest)
manuscript
PL-Pu 7836 (Maltzan collection), pp. 63–66, 111–116, 123–128, 137-171.
Moreover the manuscript contains 3 sonatas for viola da gamba and bc which are concordant with the sonatas nn. 2, 4 and 6 in Easy Sonatas (AbelWV B26, B28, B30; WKO 142, 144, 145).
The sonata in A major AbelWV B97 is concordant in the two last movements with the sonata n. 5 in Easy Sonatas (AbelWV B29), but has a different first movement.
The sonata AbelWV B85 is found also in D-LEb I.A139 Kulukundis, no. 13.
The sonata in G major AbelWV B108 is concordant with the sonata for cello and bass AbelWV B36 (WKO 147).
AbelWV: Günter von Zadow, Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel, Beeskow, Berlin, Ortus, 2022
ZadA: Peter Holman and Günter von Zadow, Charles Frederick Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music: A New Catalogue, Second Revised Version, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», Vol. 11 (2017), pp. 73–136 (previous version: Peter Holman, Charles Frederick Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music: A New Catalogue, Revised Version, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», 8, 2014, pp. 77-117).
http://www.guentersberg.de/pdf-referate/abel-new-cat-2nd-revision.pdf
Sonia Wronkowska, Newly discovered works for viola da gamba by Carl Friedrich Abel: the Maltzan Collection, «Early Music», Volume 46, Issue 2, May 2018, pp. 271–284.
