Concerto per Violino [in C major]. [Set of parts]. [Copyist musical manuscript]

  • [?]Italy or France , 1770
By TARTINI, Giuseppe 1692-1770
[?]Italy or France, 1770. Oblong folio. Disbound. Notated on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Watermark of 3 half-moons.

1) Violino principale: 6 pp.
2) Violino primo obligato: 3 pp.
3) Violino secondo: 3 pp.
4) Violetta: 2 pp.
5) Basso: [i] (title with incipit), 2 pp.

"No 35" in manuscript to upper outer corner of violino principale, violino primo obligato, and basso parts; basso part (unfigured bass) marked "Cembalo" on title above a musical incipit from the first movement.

Slightly worn; occasional small stains and soiling; some small tears to edges; minor dampstaining to lower outer corners. Catalogo tematico della composizioni di Giuseppe Tartini online, GT1.C14. Dounias p.149,14 (without movements b and d). Duckles p. 332, no. 12 (a manuscript copy). Other manuscript sources are held in Split, the Glazboni Cathedral Archive, the municipal library in Ancona, the state archive in Verona, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Dounias calls for 5 movements; the present manuscript is in 3 movements, conforming to the autograph held at the Bibliothèque nationale.

Tartini, a violinist, composer, music theorist, and pedagogue, was a central figure in the history of the violin in the 18th century.

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