Description: This collection, of English provenance, contains Scarlatti’s K36. The title page reads Several Select Pieces of Music | for the Harpsicord | Composed by the following Masters | Handel Doc. Arne Parry | Scarlatti Smith Gerard | Alberti Stanley Muller | Couperin Jones Saizoi | Fiocco Vincent | Dieu Donné Raick Gunn, while the preceding verso reads P Saizoi | 1761 | opera Quinta. Peter Saizoi was an English organist who died in 1785; his publications include Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte, with an accompanyment for a German Flute or Violin and Violoncello (London: Robert Bremner, 1770). See also Martin Perkins, ‘Music in Country Houses of the English Midlands, 1750–1810’, unpublished PhD thesis (Birmingham City University, 2020).
Title: ‘Allegro del Sig.r Scarlatti’
Copyist: Peter Saizoi.
Comments: The RISM entry for this manuscript lists 35 pieces, but the index provided (by Saizoi) lists 36 pieces (the fifth entry is split into two in the actual copy, but not on RISM). All other multi-movement works, as well as collections of works by individual composers, are grouped in the index.
Date: c1761 (this date is found in Saizoi’s own hand on one of the flyleaves).
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