Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
author
Bernabei, Giuseppe Antonio
1649 ? - 1732
work information
Orpheus ecclesiasticus. Symphonias varias commentus [with 6 sonatas for 2 violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo]
print
place (and editor)
Augsburg, Jakop Koppmayer
date
1698
scoring
2 vl + vb + bc
where
source
D-WD, I-Bc (incomplete, «Chelys Gravior» missing)
online copy
further information
notes
The four partbooks are entitled «Chelys Prima», «Chelys Secunda», «Chelys Gravior» and «Bassus Continuus». In the preface Bernabei explains that the 6 last sonatas are «cum Pentachordo (vulgò Viola da Gamba)».
The first 6 sonatas are for 2 violins and bc, without viola da gamba.
The first 6 sonatas are for 2 violins and bc, without viola da gamba.
RISM
A/I: B 2036 e BB 2036, https://opac.rism.info/search?id=990004828&View=rism
bibliography
Fritz Zobeley and Frohmut Dangel-Hofmann, Die Musikalien der Grafen von Schönborn-Wiesentheid, Thematisch-bibliographischer Katalog, Tutzing, Schneider, 1982
