Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba

D-Kl 2° ms. mus 60x

The composer is indicated on the manuscript by his surname only; the connection with Georg Nub or Nuub, instrumentalist of the Kaiserlichen Hofmusikkapelle in Vienna, was first suggested by Einstein, p. 53. Carl Israel and Ernst Hermann Meyer attributed the sonata to Franz Christoph Neubauer (1760 circa-1795), an attribution that is certainly erroneous given the typically 17th-century character of the composition.

The partbooks are labelled «Violino I°», «Violino 2°», «Viola», «Organo».

Alfred Einstein, Zur deutschen Literatur der Viola da Gamba im 16. und 17 Jahrhundert, Leipzig, Publikationen der Intern. Musikgesellschaft, 1905; ristampa: Wiesbaden, Sändig, 1972

Marc Strümper, Die Viola da gamba am Wiener Kaiserhof, Tutzing, Schneider, 2004