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Corelli, Arcangelo.
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Description
- Corelli, Arcangelo.
First edition of the Violin Sonatas Op.5
Parte prima [...seconda] Sonate a violino e violone o cimbalo dedicate all altezza serenissima elettorale di Sofia Carlotta...opera quinta, Rome, [Gasparo Pietra Santa], 1700
68 pages, oblong folio (c.23.5 x 33cms), engraved throughout, fine allegorical frontispiece (by Girolamo Frezza after Antonio Meloni), showing cherubs, musical instruments and arms of the dedicatee, dedication by Corelli dated January 1700, second title within an elaborate cartouche on page 40, eighteenth-century ownership inscription in ink on flyleaf ("Appartiene a Domenico Baldanzi"), contemporary vellum boards, light foxing
Parte prima [...seconda] Sonate a violino e violone o cimbalo dedicate all altezza serenissima elettorale di Sofia Carlotta...opera quinta, Rome, [Gasparo Pietra Santa], 1700
68 pages, oblong folio (c.23.5 x 33cms), engraved throughout, fine allegorical frontispiece (by Girolamo Frezza after Antonio Meloni), showing cherubs, musical instruments and arms of the dedicatee, dedication by Corelli dated January 1700, second title within an elaborate cartouche on page 40, eighteenth-century ownership inscription in ink on flyleaf ("Appartiene a Domenico Baldanzi"), contemporary vellum boards, light foxing
Literature
Marx, p.175; RISM C 3800; Hirsch, iii 164; Hoboken, xvi 54 (plates 11 & 12).
Catalogue Note
This is the first issue of one of the most famous publications of violin music. There is no imprint: Gasparo Pietra Santa signs himself only as the engraver. There were two apparently later issues naming Pasquino and Massimini as sellers of the edition. Page 62 contains the melody La Folia ("Follia"): although he was not the composer of the tune, Corelli's set of variations on it is the most famous and the model for many others, including by Vivaldi, C.P.E. Bach, Liszt and Rachmaninov.