Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
author
Pepusch, Johann Christoph
1667-1752
work information
Quattro a viola da gamba, 2 violini con cembalo in G major
manuscript
manuscript
scoring
2 vl + vb + cemb (=bc?)
where
source
lost
further information
notes
The work is known from the Breitkopf catalogue, Leipzig, 1764, p. 49, and 1766 (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), Verzeichniß Musikalischer Werke allein zur Praxis, sowohl zum Singen, als für alle Instrumente, welche nicht durch den Druck bekannt gemacht worden; in ihre gehörige Classen ordentlich eingetheilet; welche in richtigen Abschriften bey Bernh. Christoph Breitkopf u. Sohn in Leipzig [...] zu bekommen sind, Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1764. http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001501B00000000 ).
Information of a Pepusch sonata for the same ensemble is also found in the Catalogus librorum selectissimorum varii generis Nobilissimi & Amplissimi Domini Stephani Kenckel , Copenhagen, Rotmer, 1732, the inventory of Stephan Kenckel's auctioned possessions, lot 24 (Talbot, Michael and Koudal, Jens Henrik, 'Stephan Kenckel’s Collection of Music and Musical Instruments: A Glimpse of Danish Musical Life in the Early Eighteenth Century', RMA Research Chronicle, Vol. 43 (2010), p. 39-83).
Information of a Pepusch sonata for the same ensemble is also found in the Catalogus librorum selectissimorum varii generis Nobilissimi & Amplissimi Domini Stephani Kenckel , Copenhagen, Rotmer, 1732, the inventory of Stephan Kenckel's auctioned possessions, lot 24 (Talbot, Michael and Koudal, Jens Henrik, 'Stephan Kenckel’s Collection of Music and Musical Instruments: A Glimpse of Danish Musical Life in the Early Eighteenth Century', RMA Research Chronicle, Vol. 43 (2010), p. 39-83).
bibliography
Peter Holman, Life after Death: the Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch, 2010
, p. 104Michael Talbot and Jens Henrik Koudal, Stephan Kenckel’s Collection of Music and Musical Instruments: A Glimpse of Danish Musical Life in the Early Eighteenth Century, RMA Research Chronicle, Vol. 43 (2010), pp. 39-83.
