Provenance: from the library of the Royal Music Academy [Kungliga Musikaliska Akademiens Biblioteket] Stockholm to its successor body, the Music and Theatre Library of Sweden [Musik- och teaterbiblioteket], Stockholm in 1981.
Description: partial manuscript copy of VI Sonate per il Cembalo solo composte dal Signore don Domenico Scarlatti [i.e. Haffner 1, c. 1757], see Contents. Single unbound quire of 4ff (8 pages) in its present condition, but presumably lacking an outer bifolium that would have made up the 12 pages of Haffner’s printed album. Ready-made booklet, 25.5 x 36.5 cms, pre-ruled throughout with a 9mm rastrum, twelve staves per page. Severe water staining to bottom half of pages resulting in some loss of material. Extremely fragile.
Copyist: a single, very elegant (professional?) hand has produced a virtual facsimile of HAFFNER 1.
Comments: at first glance, this manuscript looks identical to HAFFNER 1. Aside from omitting the page numbers and the volume number [LXXVII] at the foot of each page, the copyist has for the most part respected the mise en page of the printed edition and the number of complete variant matches with HAFFNER 1 as against ESSERCIZI is exceptionally high. It seems likely that this manuscript was commissioned by a collector who was either unable to obtain a printed edition or unable to afford one.
Contents:
No
Pages
K
Title
[Title page]
[missing]
1
3
125
Sonata Ima Vivace
2
4–5
126
Sonata IIda Allegro
3
6–7
127
Sonata IIIza Allegro
4
8–9
131
Sonata IVta Allegro
5
10 (incomplete)
183
Sonata Vta Allegro
6
[11–12 missing]
[179]
[Sonata VIsta Allegro]
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