Provenance: from the collection of Patrick Alströmer (1733-1804) to the library of the Royal Music Academy [Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens Biblioteket] Stockholm in 1949, thence to its successor body, the Music and Theatre Library of Sweden [Musik- och teaterbiblioteket], Stockholm in 1981.
Description: manuscript collection of 27 of the Essercizi (see contents), though originally containing all 30 sonatas. 48ff in its present condition (96 pages), of which the first leaf is torn, with the loss of approximately one bar of music on page 2, and pages 3-15 are missing. Page numbers are in the copyist’s original hand apart from p2 which is in modern pencil. Page 2 contains 16 and a half bars of K1 and page 16 has the final 13 bars of K5. Ready-made book of medium-quality paper bound into marbled paper boards, 29 x 22.5 cms. Pre-ruled with an 8mm rastrum, ten staves per page, standard disposition throughout.
Front pastedown: top lh corner, letter ‘V’ in red ink, otherwise blank. Page [1], top lh corner ‘D. Scarlatti’ in pencil, otherwise blank. Watermark on rear pastedown not able to be identified.
Copyist: single (amateur?) copyist apart from the final unnumbered page [111], consisting of simple exercises for a solo instrument and a minuet.
Comments: Patrick Alströmer, later Baron Alströmer from 1778, was an industrial chemist and mineralogist and founder of the Royal Music Academy in 1771. His collection only came to light in the middle of the twentieth century when it was accessioned into the KMA library. Little else is known about this item.
Contents (Scarlatti items only):
No
Title
Pages
K
No
Title
Pages
K
1
Sonata 1ma
2
1
15
Sonata XVIII Presto
59–62
18
2
[end of sonata 5]
16
5
16
Sonata XIX Allegro
63–66
19
3
Sonata VI Allegro
17–20
6
17
Sonata XX Presto
67–70
20
4
Sonata VII Presto
21–24
7
18
Sonata XXI
71–74
21
5
Sonata VIII allegro
25–26
8
19
Sonata XXII
75–78
22
6
Sonata IX Allegro
27–28
9
20
Sonata XXIII
79–82
23
7
Sonata X Presto
29–32
10
21
Sonata XXIV
83–86
24
8
Sonata XI
33–34
11
22
Sonata XXV
87–90
25
9
Sonata XII Presto
35–38
12
23
Sonata XXVI
91–94
26
10
Sonata XIII Presto
39–42
13
24
Sonata XXVII
95–98
27
11
Sonata XIV Presto
43–46
14
25
Sonata XXVIII
99–102
28
12
Sonata XV
47–50
15
26
Sonata XXIX Presto
103–106
29
13
Sonata XVI Presto
51–54
16
27
Sonata XXX Fuga Moderato
107–110
30
14
Sonata XVII Presto
55–58
17
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