Manuscript fragments from the Alexander Mackay-Smith collection [manuscript]. [1770-1920?]

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Manuscript fragments from the Alexander Mackay-Smith collection [manuscript]. [1770-1920?]

Consists of 3 sheets of manuscript music, containing incipits to: Simphonia à 12 / Christoforo Gluck ; 6 trios (à cordes, op. IV), no. 1 from the 6 Klavier-Quintette, op. 46 [i.e. 56], and 24 nouveau quintetti, op. 37 [G. 358, 362, 364, 356, 369, 368] / Luigi Boccherini. Also contains 28 leaves of ms. with English translation of prefatory matter and chapters 1-2 or Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego's treatise on viola da gamba playing, Regola Rubertina.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Ganassi, Silvestro, 1492-

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Mackay-Smith, Alexander, 1850-1911

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Sportsman, violinist, and noted chamber music enthusiast, resident of New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C., and Virginia. From the description of Papers of Alexander Mackay-Smith, 1925-1958. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34566953 ...

Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805

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Composed 1761. This edition after a J.F. Peter autograph copied in 1771, now in the Moravian Music Foundation Archives.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Divertimento in B♭ / L. Boccherini. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42554106 The present concerto is not to be confused with the composer's Violoncello concerto No.1 in E-flat major, Gérard no. 474. This edition from photocopies of ms. parts discovered in the Naples (Italy) Co...

Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 1714-1787

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From the opera in 2 acts with libretto by Marco Coltellini after a play by Carlo Sigismondo Capece. First performance Burg Theater, Vienna, 30 January 1765. This work was later used as the Overture to Armide (callno.: 4406).--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Overture : Il Telemaco osia [sic] L'isola di Circe / Gluck. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 49863952 18th century German opera composer. From the description of ...