Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
author
Janitsch (Janitzch, Janitsh) Johann Gottlieb (attributed also to Christoph Schaffrath)
1708-1763 ca.
work information
Quartet for viola da gamba or viola, oboe or violin, viola or violino piccolo or violoncello and basso continuo in C major, CSWV Anh. 4
manuscript
manuscript
scoring
vl + vg + vcl + bc
vg + ob + vla + bc
ob + vl picc + vg + bc
where
source
D-DS (lost)
D-B Klingenberg coll. 63/1 (modern copy dal ms. in D-DS, attributed to Schaffrath, per vl, vg, vcl, bc); GB-Lbl add.33296, p. 149-172 (attributed to Schaffrath, per vl, vg, vcl, bc)
D-B Klingenberg coll. 63/1 (modern copy dal ms. in D-DS, attributed to Schaffrath, per vl, vg, vcl, bc); GB-Lbl add.33296, p. 149-172 (attributed to Schaffrath, per vl, vg, vcl, bc)
online copy
modern edition(s)
Das Erbe deutscher Musik vol. 104, n°9 (under the name of Janitsch); Dovehouse (under the name of Schaffrath)
further information
notes
In addition to the two modern copies in GB-Lbm add.33296 and D-B Klingenberg, the viola da gamba is also included in the instrumentation of this quartet in the lost copies announced under Janitsch's name in the Breitkopf catalogues of 1762 ( Quadro a Viola da gamba, Oboe, Viola coll Basso ), and 1763 and 1765 ( Quadro a Oboe, Violino piccolo, Viola ô (Viola da) Gamba col Basso ) (Catalogo delle sinfonie che si trovano in manoscritto nella officina musica di Giovanno Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf in Lipsia, Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1762, with successive Supplementi 1766-1787. (Facsimile reprint edited by Barry S. Brook, The Breitkopf Catalogue, 1762-1787, New York, Dover, 1966)). Other copies of the work, attributed to Janitsch, propose various ensembles without viola da gamba.
RISM
Thematic index
bibliography
Reinhard Oestreich, Verzeichnis der Werke Christoph Schaffraths, Berlin, Ortus, 2012
Michael O’Loghlin, Frederick the great and his Musicians, The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School, 1732-1772, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008
, pp. 180-181 and 228 n° 35