Sonates à un Violon Seul & une Basse Continue ... Dediees à Monsieur Munier Conseiller du Roy Expeditionnaire de Cour de Rome &c. Livre Premier [-Second]. [Op. 2]
- Amsterdam: Chez Estienne Roger Marchand Libraire, 1706
Amsterdam: Chez Estienne Roger Marchand Libraire, 1706. Two volumes bound in one. Oblong folio. Modern half dark tan calf with marbled boards, titling gilt to spine.
16 sonatas in total.
Livre Premier: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto publisher's dedication, verso blank), 3-23, [i] (blank) pp.
Livre Second: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 27-46 pp.
Engraved.
Slightly worn; light uniform browning, slightly heavier to title of Livre Premier; minor soiling, stains, and foxing; small wormhole to title of Livre Premier; short tear to blank lower margin of p. 28 of Livre Second repaired with archival tape. First Edition. Very rare. BUC p. 769. RISM P1262 and PP1262 (1 complete copy only, at the British Library; Livre Premier only at the Bayreuth Stadtarchiv).
Pepusch was a noted German composer and theorist. " After travelling through Holland, some time after September 1697 he settled in London, where he remained for the rest of his life. ... The unprecedented popularity of The Beggar’s Opera, for which Pepusch may have supplied only the basses and an overture that uses one of the opera’s popular tunes, has tended to overshadow his own music. His earliest surviving works are mostly instrumental and include well over 100 violin sonatas and several recorder and flute sonatas. These are mostly modelled on the four-movement plan of Corelli, whose sonatas and concertos Pepusch later edited for publication in London. Particularly interesting are the manuscript sets of sonatas composed for various English violinists, each containing 16 works in as many different keys, thus anticipating (and going beyond) the similar arrangement of Bach’s two- and three-part Inventions. (Pepusch included B major in addition to the keys that Bach used)." Malcolm Boyd, revised by Graydon Beeks and D.F. Cook in Grove Music Online.
16 sonatas in total.
Livre Premier: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto publisher's dedication, verso blank), 3-23, [i] (blank) pp.
Livre Second: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 27-46 pp.
Engraved.
Slightly worn; light uniform browning, slightly heavier to title of Livre Premier; minor soiling, stains, and foxing; small wormhole to title of Livre Premier; short tear to blank lower margin of p. 28 of Livre Second repaired with archival tape. First Edition. Very rare. BUC p. 769. RISM P1262 and PP1262 (1 complete copy only, at the British Library; Livre Premier only at the Bayreuth Stadtarchiv).
Pepusch was a noted German composer and theorist. " After travelling through Holland, some time after September 1697 he settled in London, where he remained for the rest of his life. ... The unprecedented popularity of The Beggar’s Opera, for which Pepusch may have supplied only the basses and an overture that uses one of the opera’s popular tunes, has tended to overshadow his own music. His earliest surviving works are mostly instrumental and include well over 100 violin sonatas and several recorder and flute sonatas. These are mostly modelled on the four-movement plan of Corelli, whose sonatas and concertos Pepusch later edited for publication in London. Particularly interesting are the manuscript sets of sonatas composed for various English violinists, each containing 16 works in as many different keys, thus anticipating (and going beyond) the similar arrangement of Bach’s two- and three-part Inventions. (Pepusch included B major in addition to the keys that Bach used)." Malcolm Boyd, revised by Graydon Beeks and D.F. Cook in Grove Music Online.