Hasse, Johann Adolf.

the score notated by a single scribe in brown ink on systems of varying length per page, the title by the same hand ("Regina Coeli a V Voci Conc^{ti II Soprani Alto, Tenore, Basso. II Violini, II Trobe [sic] e Tympani Viola ed Organo con Basso Del: Sigre Adolfo Hasse."), 44 pages, including title, oblong 4to (c.23 x 33cm), 12-stave paper [cf. The Beethoven Sketchbooks, 'Paper-Type 12', p. 547], some pencil and crayon annotations, no place or date [Vienna, c.1806?]; the parts notated by a second, single, scribe on brown ink on up to 12 single-stave systems per page, title on upper cover in another hand ("237 Regina Coeli in D...") comprising parts for SSATB (concertato), ATB (ripieno), vn I, II, va, vc, cb, ob I, II, trbn I, II, tpt I, II, timp, org, 4, 4, 6, 4, 8, 4, 4, 9, 9, 7, 7, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 10, 9, 9 and 9 pages, plus blanks, 4to (31 x 22.5cm), three moons and  the letters VF, carta rustica, no place or date [Vienna, early nineteenth century?]} 

Regina coeli in D, ed. Wolfgang Hochstein (Stuttgart, 1991), p. 4

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Hasse's Marian antiphon Regina Coeli was one of a number of works which survived the general desuetude in to which the composer's output unjustly sank after his death, a number of his sacred works, being cultivated, for example, by the Viennese Hofkapelle in to the nineteenth century (TNG). The time and place of the work's composition are unknown, although the work was presumably written for use at Dresden. Both score and parts here transmit a later version of the work in which the original high horn parts are replaced by trumpets and timpani, and which contains a middle movement for four voices, including bass solo (the earlier version of the work contained a movement for altosolo). Hasse's autograph manuscript of a later version of the work, also with bass solo in the second movement, was sold in these rooms on 6 December 1996 (lot 110).