Sonate per Cembalo o Pianoforte Con Accompagnamento d'un Violino. [Piano part]

  • Venezia: Presso Antonio Zatta e Figli, 1780
By ROSETTI, Antonio ca. 1750-1792
Venezia: Presso Antonio Zatta e Figli, 1780. Oblong folio. Disbound. [i] (title), 8-15, [i] (blank) pp. Title typeset, music engraved.

"9" in contemporary manuscript to head of all pages.

Light foxing to blank margins of first leaf; binder's holes to inner margins; minor dampstaining to lower margins. RISM R2627 and RR2627 (1 copy only in the U.S., at the Library of Congress).

These pieces, consisting of sonata forms, rondos, and romances, call for violin accompaniment; absent a violin, however, they stand on their own as keyboard solos.

Rosetti was a Bohemian composer and double bass player. "Two distinctive features distinguish his style: an economical treatment of materials, which often results in tight musical structures held together by discernible motivic relationships, and a sure and imaginative employment of wind instruments." Sterling E. Murray in Grove Music Online

An attractive example of late 18th century Venetian music printing.

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