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Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba

author

Abel, Carl Friedrich

1723-1787

work information

6 easy sonattas for the Harpsichord or for a Viola da Gamba, Violin or German Flute, with Thorough Bass Accompaniment, AbelWV B25-B30 (WKO 141-146, ZadA 2:1-6)

print/manuscript

place (and editor)

Amsterdam, Hummel

date

n. d. (ca. 1771-1772)

scoring

vb + bc

where

source

print: D-Dl 3122-R-2

manuscript: PL-Pu 7836 (Maltzan Collection), pp. 23–28, 51-56, 63-66, 97–102 (sonatas WKO 142, 144, 145 (2 movements) and 146)

online copy

print: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/151887/1/

ms. Maltzan collection

modern edition(s)

Bärenreiter - Hortus Musicus, Güntersberg

further information

notes

An identical copy with the title Six Sonatines pour le clavecin ou le violon e basse continue à l’usage des commençants […] , Hummel, n. d., hold in D-B (Mus. O.9755), was lost during the Second World War.

RISM

print: ID 1001108790

ms Maltzan: ID 300044500

Thematic index

http://vdgs.org.uk/thematic/Abel%20New%20Cat%202nd%20revision.pdf

bibliography

AbelWV: Günter von Zadow, Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel, Beeskow, 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), p. 73–136. http://vdgs.org.uk/journal/Vol-11.pdf

WKO: Walter Knape, Bibliographisch-thematisches Verzeichnis der Kompositionen von Karl Friedrich Abel, Cuxhaven, 1971

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://vdgs.org.uk/journal/Vol-08.pdf

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Organization of the Catalogue

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