Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Abel, Carl Friedrich
31 sonatas and 2 minuettos for viola da gamba and basso continuo, AbelWV B40-B72 (WKO 151A, 152, 156-184; ZadA 2:9-2:41)
manuscript
GB-Lbl Add. 31697 (known as Musicbook of the Countess of Pembroke)
Modern copy of sonata WKO 151A in D-B mus.ms. 263/2 (catalogized in Knape as WKO 151)
Asclepius Editions (6 sonatas); Dovehouse (WKO 152); Güntersberg (complete); Knape Ad portam (complete); Santa Ynez Music (choice)
The manuscript contains short sonatas in 2 or 3 movements, as well as two minuets not belonging to any sonata that receive a separate number in AbelWV.
AbelWV: Günter von Zadow, Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel, Beeskow, Berlin, 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
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
Fred Flassig, Die solistische Gambenmusik in Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert, Göttingen, Cuvillier Verlag, 1998
