Silva Box 17-1: An English Eighteenth-Century Compilation of Sonatas and Other Compositions for Cello in Greensboro (original) (raw)

The Consort, 2022

Abstract

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (NC) possesses, in its Luigi Silva Musical Score and Personal Papers Collection (shelfmark: Silva Box 17–1), a manuscript anthology of music (58 items in all) composed or arranged for the cello that was compiled in the mid-eighteenth century. Little is known about the commissioner, copyist and recipient of the album, which contains not only music written originally for cello – most notably, an early version of Willem Defesch’s six cello sonatas Op. 1b – but also arrangements for that instrument of sonatas and individual sonata movements for violin (by Corelli, Boni, Klein, Vivaldi, Valentini and unidentified composers) and arrangements of vocal movements, mostly taken from Handel operas. The collection reveals the extent to which, during the first thirty years or so of its popularity among amateur musicians, the cello repertoire was dependent on arrangements of pieces taken from other repertoires

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