Provenance: Possibly originally part of the collection of Adeodatus Josephus Philippus du Beine de Malchamps (1717-1803), also known as Baron du Beine (or Baron von DuBeine). Du Beine’s library was auctioned by his son in 1813, and was at least partly acquired by Archduke Rudolph of Austria (1788-1831).
Description: A small (157x210mm) oblong manuscript copy of six of the sonatas in Essercizi.
Rastrum: Stave size: 7mm; stave distance: 6.5mm; total stave span: 138mm.
Watermark: Described in Choi 1974Choi, Seunghyun. 1974. ‘Newly Found Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts of Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas and Their Relationship to Other Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Sources’. PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin. as hats or bells, which, according to Jens Peter Larsen, are found in paper used in the 1770s. Additionally, Eva Badura-Skoda notes that this small-sized format was used in Vienna mainly during the 1770s and 1780s.
Titles: The title page reads ‘Sei Sonate / Per il Cembalo solo / da / Don Domenico Scarlatti’. Also present are early catalogue numbers. The sonatas are individually titled ‘Sonata’ followed by a Roman numeral.
Copyist: Two Viennese copyists can be distinguished: Copyist 1 (Sonata I only); Copyist 2 (Sonatas II-VI). While Choi notes a similarity between Copyist 2 and the copyist of Vienna Q15120, we believe these copyists not to be the same person.
Comments: Our variant analysis suggests a close relationship between part of this manuscript and Vienna Q11432; one obvious marker of kinship is the absent bars that both witnesses have in common in K19 and K27.
Date: Possibly late 1770s or early 1780s.
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