Early Music: Rare Music Manuscripts, Printed Music and Books from the Library of Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940)

Early Music: Rare Music Manuscripts, Printed Music and Books from the Library of Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940)

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G. Tartini. Three early editions of the Op.1-2 sonatas for violin [1742]

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Tartini, Giuseppe


Three early editions of the Op.1-2 sonatas for violin


XII Solos for a Violin with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsicord or Violoncello [score] [Op.1], London: J. Walsh, [1742], 57 pages


Six Solos For a Violin with a Thorough Bass for the for Harpsichord or Violoncello...Opera Seconda [score], London: J. Walsh, [1746], 35 pages


XII Sonate A Violino e Basso Dedicate al S.r Guglielmo Fegeri...Opera Terza [= 2] [score], Paris: Le Clerc, [c.1747], 55 pages


3 works in one volume, folio (32.5 x 22.5cm), engraved music, Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark ("II E 30") to verso of titles, nineteenth-century calf-backed marbled boards, title and front endpaper of first volume detached, second and third leaves of same volume loose, third edition browned with old repair to title, binding worn, upper cover attached to spine with brown paper


LITERATURE:

RISM T 249 and 256; cf. RISM T 260; Smith & Humphries 1425, 1428; TNG, xxv, p.113 

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