Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Nicolai, Johann Michael or Bertali, Antonio or Young, William or Buxtehude, Dietrich
Sonata in D minor for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo (or for organ and viola da gamba)
Title in S-Uu: Sonata â 2, with parts Violino, Violdagamba, Organo, author: M. Nicolaÿ
Title in D-W: Sonata | A 2. Violino è Viola [di Gamba], author: Sign: An: Berthali
Title in GB-DRc ms. D.2: Sonata 21 a 2. violi et viola, author: Young
Title in US-NH: Sonata à 2 Clavier Pedal, author: Box de Hou (BuxWV suppl. 5)
manuscript
S-Uu im. hs. 5:6a (attributed to Nicolai)
D-W Cod. Guelf. 34.7 Aug.2° (Jakob Ludwig Partitur Buch), pp. 80-81 n° [51] (erroneously not counted in the numbering) (attributed to Bertali)
GB-DRc ms. D.2, n° 21 (parts) (attributed to Young)
GB-DRc ms. D.10, p. 223 (score) (attributed to Young)
US-NH Ma21.Y2 L8 (LM 5056), pp. 81-83 (attributed to Buxtehude)
editions based on GB-DRc (Young): Güntersberg, Dovehouse
editions based on US-NH (Buxtehude): Broude Brothers (Buxtehude, The collected works XIV, 1994, with a reconstructed version for violin, viola da gamba and bc); Breitkopf (Buxtehude, Sämtliche Orgelwerke, II suppl. 4)
In the ms. US-NH, a collection of organ music, the sonata is notated on two staffs and one line in German tablature for the pedal; the second staff bears the inscription «Viol d Gamb:». By this is probably meant an alternative instrumentation for viola da gamba and organ obbligato.A different scribe added «Box de Hou» under the title, a variant of the name Buxtehude that recurs frequently in this manuscript. The work might be the transcription of an original sonata for violin, viola da gamba and bc by Buxtehude.
In D-W, the instrumental indication Viola di Gamba is not found in the title of the sonata, but rather in the corresponding index entry.
http://vdgs.org.uk/thematic/Y.pdf (Young-6)
Michael Fuerst, The Partiturbuch Ludwig: An Introduction and Thematic Catalogue, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», 4 (2010), pp. 74-102
