Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
author
Hesse, Ernst Christian
1676-1762
work information
Sonata a un Flauto Traversa e Continuo del signe. Hesse in D major
manuscript
scoring
flt + vb (bc)
where
source
D-ROu Mus. Saec. XVII 18.-14.22 (incomplete)
modern copies: D-B 15, Klingenberg Nr. 35 (complete); Blätter hessischer Tonkunst, Beiträge zur Musikgeschichte Hessens, Mainz 1908 (Sonata / Duo composées par Ernst Christian Hesse, edited by Wilhelm Kleefeld) (complete)
modern edition(s)
Güntersberg
further information
notes
Despite the title it is rather a duet, the bass part being characterised by some double stops and a range (AA-b’), both of which being typical for the viol.
The bass part has no figures.
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