Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba

author

Stamitz, Carl Philipp

1745-1801

work information

Sestetto per il Viola da Gamba, Violino, Viola, 2 corni, è violoncello in E flat major

manuscript

scoring

vb + vl + vla + 2 horns + vcl

where

source

D-SWl mus. 5244; D-B (coll. Klingenberg)

further information

notes

The viola da gamba part is notated in D, one semitone below the others, probably to allow it to be played with greater string tension.

RISM

bibliography

David J. Rhodes, The viola da gamba, its repertory and practitioners in the late eighteenth century, Chelys, vol. 31 (2003), pp. 36-63