Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Mente, Johann Gottfried (Friedrich)
III suites del Sgr. Mente a Viola da Gamba Sola coll Basso in D major, A major, D minor
manuscript
lost
Information from catalogue Breitkopf 1762, p. 48 (Catalogo delle sinfonie che si trovano in manoscritto nella officina musica di Giovanno Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf in Lipsia, Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1762. Facsimile reprint edited by Barry S. Brook, The Breitkopf Catalogue, 1762-1787, New York, Dover, 1966).
One of these suites could be identical with the Suite für die Gambe und den General-Bass by Mente reviewed by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg in Kritische Briefe über die Tonkunst: von einer musikalischen Gesellschaft in Berlin, Berlin, Birnstiel, 1761, 87. Brief, pp. 178-179. Marpurg however does not indicate the tonality and attests its publication in 1754.
