Bettina Hoffmann

Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba

author

Schmidt, Johann Christoph

1664-1728

work information

Latona in Delo, Divertimento Teatrale
Items with viola da gamba:
aria «Al ritorno di luce si bella», parte prima, scena I (libretto: scena II), fol. 23v-24v, for soprano (Una Sirena), oboe, viola da gamba and basso continuo
aria «Cristalini rusceletti», parte seconda, scena V, fol. 63, for soprano (Latona), 2 flutes, viola da gamba and basso continuo (for theorbo, lute and violins)

manuscript

place (and editor)

Warszawa

date

1699

scoring

voxS + ob + vb + bc, voxS + 2 flt + vb + bc

where

source

D-B Mus.ms. 19922. Excerpts also in D-Dl , Mus.2154-N-4

further information

notes

The Dresden manuscript does not include the two arias with viola da gamba obbligato, but only instrumental movements in which the “Basse de Viole” follows the bass part.

RISM

ms. D-B: ID 452508228

ms. D-Dl: ID 212001835

bibliography

Susanne Herre, The Viola da gamba in German Baroque Opera: New findings and a closer examination of Pietro Torri's works, Den Haag, thesis, 2015, pp. 37-38

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