Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Graun, Carl Heinrich
Balli dell’opera Montezuma [1755] per il Viola da Gamba
manuscript
D-B KHB M 1847
Denkmäler Deutscher Tonkunst I/15, Anhang
This is most likely a reduction of an otherwise unknown version for orchestra.
It is not specified which kind of viola da gamba should be used; the second voice – a generic bass – is perfectly suited to the bass viola da gamba, while the first voice – given its range and the chords employed – would be playable on a pardessus, which however was not widely used in Germany.
Flassig F., Die solistische Gambenmusik in Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert, Göttingen, Cuvillier Verlag, 1998
Thouret G., Katalog der Musiksammlung auf der Königlichen Hausbibliothek im Schlosse zu Berlin, Leipzig, 1895, ristampa: Hildesheim, Olms Verlag, Breitkopf&Härtel, 1983
