Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 7 in E Minor, G 451
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- Composer: Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
- Instrumentation: Guitar Quintet (Guitar, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello)
- Work: Guitar Quintet No. 7 in E Minor, G 451
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- Size: 9.1 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 56
Description
The Quintets nos. 1-7, 9 and the 12 Variazioni sulla Ritirata di Madrid, for guitar and string quartet, are not listed in Boccherini's autograph catalogues, nor in the Catalogo Boccherini y Calonje, nor in the Catalogue Baillot. However they are mentioned in the Catalogue Picquot, and they have come down to us through three non-autograph manuscripts and three unauthorized printed editions of the early twentieth century. The documentary evidence establishes their authorship, their dating and the relevant musical source, as the single movements for the most part are transcriptions of compositions for other instrumental settings. The primary source of the Quintets 7, 9 and the 12 Variazioni sulla Ritirata di Madrid is ms. L520, a codex comprising 5 volumes, dating from the first half of the nineteenth century, certainly assembled at Bar-Le-Duc, the residence of Louis Picquot from 1832 to 1853, who probably was the commissioner and first owner. Upon Picquot's death, the codex was sold at auction in 1904 by the Berlin antiquarian Leo Liepmannssohn as lot 520. in 1911 it was acquired by the Gitarristische Vereinigung of Munich. During the twentieth century this institution dissolved, and the ex lot 520 passed into anonymous private hands. Rediscovered and examined in 2010 by Andreas Stevens and Fulvia Morabito, the codex was acquired by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.
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Boccherini: Guitar Quintet No. 7 in E Minor, G 451
