Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Kühnel, August
Sonate ô partite ad una o due viole da gamba con il basso continuo (6 sonatas for 2 bass viols and basso continuo partialy ad libitum; 8 sonatas for 1 bass viol and basso continuo partialy ad libitum)
print and manuscript
s. l. (Kassel), s. n.
print: D-Kl
ms. copies of single pieces in D-Kl ms.mus Israel Anh. 28 (tablature, with a different Gigue in the suite in C major); D-Kl ms. 2° mus.61.L.2, fol. 11r (tablature); D-Kl 4° Ms. Mus. 108, vol. 6 and vol. 7 (tablature); GB-Ob Mus.Sch.ms. D.249 n° 16, ff. 86v, 87v-88r, 91v-92r (transcription for violin, viola da gamba and bc of Sonata III); N-Tu XA HA Mus 1:1 (tablature)
GB-Lbl add. ms. 33296 (modern copy)
manuscripts:
ms D-Kl Israel Anh. 28
Editions from the print: Alamire; Dovehouse; Güntersberg; Peters; Santa Ynez Music; Schott; Einstein, Zur deutschen Literatur der Viola da Gamba (1 preludio e 2 sonatas).
Editions from the ms. D-Kl Israel-Anh. 28: Güntersberg; Atelier Philidor (facsimile)
From the preface we learn that in sonatas I - III and XI - XIV the b. c. can be omitted.
See here for a detailed list of the contents and concordances of the Trondheim manuscript (N-Tu XA HA Mus 1:1).
print: A/I: K 2960
ms N-Tu: ID 170000129
ms D-Kl: B VII, p. 141
On ms. N-Tu: François-Pierre Goy, The Norwegian Viol Tablatures, «Chelys» 23 (1994), pp. 55-72
