Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Gasparini, Francesco (transcription)
Aria “Il mio pianto” for soprano viola da gamba or violoncello and basso continuo
in
Cantata del Signore Francesco Gasparini (”Tormentosi pensieri”)
transcribed from Cantate da camera a voce sola […] Opera Prima, Roma, Mascardi, 1695, n. 11, for soprano, violoncello or archlute and basso continuo
manuscript
D-B ms. 30188 (Bokemeyer collection), n. 25, pp. 160-169
Gasparini explains the instrumental intention of the arias with obbligato instrument in his preface to the edition.
The destination to viola da gamba in the manuscript is most likely the work of a German transcriber.
Vittorio Ghielmi, An Eighteenth-Century Italian Treatise and Other Clues to the History of the Viola da Gamba in Italy, in: The Italian Viola da Gamba. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Italian Viola da Gamba, a cura di Susan Orlando, Torino, Manzoni, 2002, pp. 73-85.
p. 80
