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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J.B. Senaillé. Three eighteenth-century early editions

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September 14, 02:51 PM GMT

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Senaillé, Jean Baptiste


Three early editions


Premier livre de sonates à violon seul avec la basse continue [RISM S 2784] [score], Paris: L'Auteur, Boivin, 1710, 44 pages, privilege dated 1726


Deuxième livre de sonates à violon seul avec la basse continue [RISM S 2788] [score], Paris: L'Auteur, Boivin, Le Clerc, 1712, 51 pages, privilege dated 1726


Sonates a violon seul avec la basse...Oeuvre Ve [RISM S 2799] [score], Paris: L'Auteur, Boivin, Le Clerc, 1727, 53 pages, privilege dated 1726


3 volumes in one, folio (c.37.5 x 26.2cm), engraved music, apparently contemporary drawings of faces in pencil and red crayon to front pastedown and front free endpaper, some later pencil annotations to sonata no.1 of first volume, Dolmetsch Library stamp and pencil shelfmark ("II E 27") to verso of title of first item, contemporary vellum, last leaf of third item detached, browning to edges, a few small stains, covers worn, spine defective and crudely repaired with brown paper


Using an arrangement of the keyboard part by Arnold Dolmetsch, his son Carl (1911-1997) edited and published (1974) the fifth sonata from the Premier livre for recorder and keyboard (transposed to G minor) in accordance with the composer's remark in the score: "Cette Piece peut se jouer sur la Flûte Traversiere".