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; paper and online edition)
Les Cahiers du Tourdion (Drexel 3551)
Seicento (Marsh’s Lyra Viol Book)
Boethius Press (Marsh’s Lyra Viol Book)
Güntersberg (pieces from Drexel 3551 and Goëss, facsimile and transcription)
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
ms. GB-Lbl mus. 249: Robert Smith, British Library MS Mus 249, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», vol. VII, 2013, pp. 20-44.
ms. Goëss: Introduction to Tree edition
ms. G.28 Wenster: Viola da Gamba Society Index
