Strings & basso continuo
SKU: HH.HH220-FSP
Composed by Francesco
Navara. Edited by Adrian
Chandler. Strings & Basso
Continuo. Full score and
parts. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH220-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH220-FSP).
ISBN
9790708059288.
Thes
e two sonatas/sinfonias
survive in Durham
Cathedral Library as part
of a collection of
numerous late 17th and
early 18th century
Italian instrumental
compositions which
contain a substantial
amount of music by other
composers with Mantuan
connections, Tomaso
Albinoni and
Marc’Antonio
Ziani. MS M.175 contains
a score of these works
whilst MS M.193 holds a
set of parts, although
sadly the tenor viola
part is missing. The
parts, which are in the
north European portrait
format, were probably
copied from the scores
which are in the Italian
oblong format and in a
different hand. The
scores possibly hail from
a source close to the
composer judging from the
high degree of accuracy
on behalf of the copyist
and also due to the
biographical information
contained therein; the
work in A minor records
the date of 1697 and his
post at the Mantuan court
– Maestro di
Cappella di S.A.S. di
Mantova, whilst the work
in C is inscribed Fatta
per la Signora Cati,
probably alluding to one
of the ladies of the
court.
