Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Hacquart, Carolus (Carolo)
Chelys op. III (12 suites for bass viol and b. c.)
print/manuscript
Den Haag, author
print: GB-DRc (incomplete, b. c. missing)
ms. in GB-DRc A.27 Falle (34 movements, partly with il b. c.), D-Kl ms. 2°mus.61.L.2 (Suite II in D minor except the Preludium, without b. c.), GB-Ob ms.mus.sch. D.249 n° 26, ff. 145 -148 (Suite VIII in E minor except the Fantasia, with b. c.), D-B coll. Klingenberg (modern copy of Suite II, with b. c.)
Güntersberg, Atelier Philidor (facsimile)
Of the printed edition only the solo viol part is preserved. A complete copy was kept in D-Kl before World War II.
This work probably coincides with the Pièces de basse de viole de Mr. Hakart, composées de Préludes, Allemandes Courantes, Sarabandes, Gigues, Fantasies à une Basse de Viole & une Basse continue , announced in the Roger catalogue, and with the Pièces a une Viole de Gambe & une Basse Continue ad libitum by Car. Hacquart reported in the catalogue Selhof, Nicolas, Catalogue d’une très belle bibliothèque de livres, Den Haag, Moetjens, 1759 (edizione facsimile: Amsterdam, Knuf, 1973).
A/I: H 36, ID 990024436
ms. Falle : ID 806931276
