Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Stoeffken, Dietrich (Steffkens, Steffkin, Steffkyn, Stepkin; Ditrich, Theodore)
74 pieces (Preludes, Allemandes, Courantes, Sarabandes, Gigues) for lyra viol
manuscript
A-ETgoëss A, B, C (65 pieces); D-Kl 4° Ms. Mus. 108, voll. 2-5 (4 pieces); F-Pn ms. Rés 1111 (3 pieces); GB-Lam ms. 600 Browne (olim GB-Lspencer) (2 pieces); GB-Lbl Add.ms. 59869 Cartwright (12 pieces); GB-Lbl ms. mus. 249 (5 or 6 pieces); GB-Ob ms.mus. b.15 (1 piece); IRL-Dm ms. Z3.5.13 Narcissus Marsh (9 pieces); S-L ms. G.28 Wenster (1 piece); US-NYp ms. Drexel 3551 (11 pieces in 3 suites, staff notation)
A-ET Goëss, (Goess A_1.pdf, Goess A_2.pdf, Goess B.pdf, Goess 2.pdf)
Tree Edition (facsimile ms. Goëss), Les Cahiers du Tourdion (Drexel 3551); Seicento (Marsh’s Lyra Viol Book); Boethius Press (Marsh’s Lyra Viol Book)
All manuscripts are in tablature, with the exception of Drexel 3551.
One Courante is attributed in most sources to Stoeffken, but in GB-Lbl Add.ms. 59869 Cartwright to William Drew and in IRL-Dm ms. Z3.5.13 Narcissus Marsh to Stephen Goodall. One Courante is attributed in ms. Goëss to Stoeffken, but in a version for baryton in D-Kl 2° mus. 61.1/1 to Jenkins. Cfr. http://vdgs.org.uk/thematic/Si.pdf.
GB-Lbl Add.ms. 59869 Cartwright : ID 806251652
US-NYp ms. Drexel 3551: ID 101912
GB-Lbl ms. mus. 249: Robert Smith, British Library MS Mus 249, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», vol. VII, 2013, pp. 20-44.
