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SKU: HH.HH598-FSP
ISBN 9790708213130.
Eighteenth-century England was full of amateur musicians making music without fanfare at home. Some of them were also gifted composers, and among the best was Benjamin Skinner (1728–1757) from what was then the village of Bromley near Bow, today part of London’s East End. Skinner’s main publication was a set of six sonatas for flute, violin or solo harpsichord, which came out in 1752. These unpretentious pieces, then as now well suited to performance by amateurs or by musicians in training, are full of delights, mixing stylistic features inspired by Purcell or Handel with evocations of English popular vocal music and also the newer galant style introduced from Italy. Perhaps these sonatas work best with flute and basso continuo, but the other two performance options are good alternatives.
SKU: HH.HH599-FSP
ISBN 9790708213147.
SKU: UT.HS-281
ISBN 9790215326385. 9 x 12 inches.
Sonata I (Les Fêtes de Flore); Sonata II (Les Champs Elisées); Sonata III (Le Jardin des Hesperides); Sonata IV (Les Amusemens d’Apollon chez Le Roi Admète); Sonata V (Les Jeux Olympiques); Sonata VI (Les Voyages d’Ulysse)Published in 1742 by the author with Boivin, Le Clerc and de Bretonne, Corrette’s Op. 25 was committed to the Knight of Orleans. It contains six sonatas with violin accompaniment. Nevertheless, on the frontispiece, Corrette reminds the possibility to perform these sonatas also for solo harpsichord; violin accompaniment is therefore considered as collateral and not crucial even though two instruments complete each other and continuously dialogue in a charming way. The composer declares the effect he requires to obtain at the beginning of sonata punctuating that the violin must play mezzo piano way and giving, once again, a great relevance to the keyboard. Despite the notices, imitations and plots between the instruments are so pleasant and constant that it is very improbable to imagine that violin role has considered as unsubstantial.In the fourth sonata, the only one written in minor tonality, Corrette supposes flute accompaniment as alternative to the violin. In this case, Italian style is evident, for example, in the third movement where the composer imitates Vivaldi with frequent unison passages.On technical plan, the harpsichordist is occupied in recurring hands crossing, playing suddenly overall keyboard.
SKU: FZ.1279
ISBN 9790230612791. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.
This facsimile of an original by Etienne-Nicolas Mehul is part of our Dominantes collection. Three sonatas for harpsichord or fortepiano, Opus I - Edition : Paris, Jouve, s. d. (=1783). Three sonatas for harpsichord or fortepiano with violin accompaniment, Opus 2 - Editions : Paris, Le Duc, s. d. (=1788). Two volumes: piano part of opus I and II - preface and violin part of opus II. Preface by Joel Pontet: The keyboard sonatas of E. N. Mehul - a precocious talent - remarks on performance (choice of instrument and indications of nuances - articulations - ornaments). The preface sets out the essential points for performance of these youthful works. Editions originales of 1783 and 1788, preserved at the library national of Paris. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of a copy in the National Library of Paris (France). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose period copies of classical music scores.
SKU: FZ.5887
ISBN 9790230658874. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.
This facsimile of an original by Ignace Pleyel is part of our French classical music collection. Edition : Paris, Sieber, 1788. Preface by students of the CeFEdeM-Ile-de-France: Pleyel's biography the works of Ignace Pleyel - Pleyel the music publisher - Pleyel the piano builder - the Salle Pleyel in rue Rochechouart - hints about the score. Three separate instrumental parts: piano - flute or violin - cello. The composer, publisher, and piano maker, Ignace Pleyel, holds an important place at the cusp of the 18th and 19th centuries. The quality of the compositions produced by this student of Haydn makes their republishing worthwhile. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of a copy in the National Library of Paris (France). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose period copies of classical music scores.
SKU: HH.HH455-FSP
ISBN 9790708146629.
Scheibe’s three sonatas for flute (or violin) and obbligato harpsichord were published by Haffner in the late 1750’s, but were probably composed much earlier; they contain a significant quantity of elaborate imitative writing that is out of character with Scheibe’s later music. Although rooted in the same tradition as the sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord by J.S. Bach, C.P.E Bach, and composers at Berlin court of Frederick the Great, these are more substantial works, each having four movements in the traditional slow-fast-slow-fast scheme. For the most part they are trio sonatas, the right hand of the harpsichord acting as the second treble voice, but several movements feature idiomatic writing for the keyboard. Also interesting is the large amount of ornamentation called for, particularly in the harpsichord part. While Scheibe disapproved of the excessive embellishments that Bach actually wrote into his melody lines, these sonatas are nonetheless heavily ornamented, albeit through the insertion of notational symbols; in addition to turns and mordents, Scheibe uses no less than three different trill symbols!
SKU: BA.BA05857
ISBN 9790006497966. 33 x 25.8 cm inches.
Continuo-Aussetzung von Klaus Hofmann (Herbipol.).
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