Perez, David.

[1] Credo (in B flat) and Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei (in D), 21 parts (S^{1, S2, A1, A2, T1, T2, B1, B2, vn I, II [2], va, vc, b, ob I, II, hn I, II, tpt, I, II, org) in two scribal hands; together with separate parts for vn I, A1, T1, B1, S2, A2, T2, B2  in two different hands} 
[2] Kyrie (in G) and Gloria (in D), 14 parts (vn I [3], II [3], va, b [3], ob I, II, hn I, II), in apparently four scribal hands; with a single solo soprano part for the 'Domine Deus' and 'Qui sedes'
[3] Kyrie (in F) and Gloria (in D), 7 parts (vn I [3], II [3], b), in four scribal hands; with a single soprano part for the 'Quoniam tu solus sanctus'
[4] Kyrie (in E flat) and Gloria (in D) ("Messa à due Cori Reali"), 14 parts (S, T, B [choir I] and S, T [choir II], vn I, vn II, va, b, ob I, II, hn I, II, tpt I, II), with a S^{2 [choir II] part for the last chorus of the Gloria, all apparently in a single scribal hand, also found in [2], damp-staining to b part, B [choir I] part incomplete} 



upwards of 900 pages, upright and oblong 4to, English and Continental papers, no place or date, [c.1770s?], unbound, some dust-staining; together with an eighteenth-century scribal manuscript of the aria "Ti parli in seno" from Perez's opera Farnace 



 

From the collection of William Reeves

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This is an intriguing collection of eighteenth-century parts for church works by the Italian composer David Perez (1711-1778).

Whether any of these sets of parts were used by the Academy of Ancient Music or by the Concerts of Ancient Music, the latter society founded in 1776, is a question that can be raised, but not resolved here. Surviving programmes of the Academy record many performances of Perez's church music between 1768 and 1775 (including one of a 'Mass in F' on 26 November and 3 December 1772), and three scores from the library of the Concerts of Ancient Music, now in the Royal College of Music, London, are for works in this collection (MS 472: a score of the Kyrie and Gloria listed above as [3]; MS 979: a score of of the Kyrie and Gloria listed above as [4]; and MS 978: a score of the 'Quoniam' and 'Cum sancto spiritu' from the same 'Gloria' as in [4]), although none of the hands in these scores can be found in the present parts. A score of [1], written by the principal copyist of the present parts for [1], and whose title-page is written by the other hand found in [1], is preserved in the Royal Music Library in the British Library (R.M.21.g.22). We are pleased to acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Harry Johnstone in our cataloguing of this lot. See lot 1.