Concerto en la de Sr. Tartinÿ per Violino obligato Due Violino alto Viola et Basso. [Violin concerto in A major]. [Set of parts]. [Copyist musical manuscript]

  • [?]Italy or France , 1770
By TARTINI, Giuseppe 1692-1770
[?]Italy or France, 1770. Oblong folio. Unbound. Various watermarks, including 3 half-moons. In two different hands.

1) Violino principale: [i] (title), 7 pp.
2) Violino principale: 4 pp.
3) Violino primo obligato: 2 pp.
4) Violino primo obligato: 2 pp.
5) Violino secondo obligato: 2 pp.
6) Alto viola: 1, [i] (blank) pp.
7) Basso: [i] (title), 2, [i] (blank) pp.

Early signature to lower outer corner of violino principale part title, overwritten by another early signature both indecipherable. "No. 34" in contemporary manuscript to upper outer corner and "63" in manuscript to upper inner corner; "No 34" in manuscript to first page of violino primo obligato part; "O" in manuscript to all parts, except first violino principale and violino primo obligato parts; incipits to titles of violino principale and basso parts.

Slightly worn; some light soiling and small stains; Violino principale part slightly browned with central stain to first leaf with minor showthrough to following leaves; small binder's holes to blank inner margins. Catalogo tematico della composizioni di Giuseppe Tartini online, GT1.A11. Dounias p. 284, 98. Published as part of an edition of VI Concerti in Amsterdam in 1760.

Autograph manuscript score held at the Biblioteca Antoniana in Padua; copyist manuscript score held at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin; copyist manuscript parts held at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris and at the Biblioteca Antoniana in Padua.

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

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