Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
author
Hely, Benjamin
fl. 1680-’90
work information
2 suites (in A minor, in A major) for bass viol
in The compleat violist or an introduction to ye art of playing on ye bass viol
print/manuscript
in The compleat violist or an introduction to ye art of playing on ye bass viol
print/manuscript
place (and editor)
London, J. Hare, B. Norman
date
n. d. (ca. 1699)
scoring
vb
where
source
print: GB-DRc, GB-Ob, US-WC
ms.: GB-Cfm Mu.ms. 641 (same suites as published in The compleat violist with one more piece in A major)
ms.: GB-Cfm Mu.ms. 641 (same suites as published in The compleat violist with one more piece in A major)
online copy
modern edition(s)
Corda; Grace Note Press; King’s Music; Klemt facs., Güntersberg, Atelier Philidor , Cornetto
further information
notes
Only these pieces from The compleat violist can be confidentally attributed to Hely, the others from the same, posthumous publication must be considered anonymous.
RISM
A/I: H 5007, https://opac.rism.info/search?id=990029134&View=rism
Thematic index
bibliography
Peter Holman, Life after Death: the Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch, 2010
, p. 32 ss. and 51-52