Guitar; Chamber Music for
Strings
SKU:
UT.BCE-8
Composed by
Luigi Boccherini. Edited
by Andrea Schiavina and
Fulvia Morabito. Hardback
(Cloth Hard Cover). Luigi
Boccherini Opera Omnia.
Classical. Ut Orpheus
#BCE 8. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.BCE-8).
ISBN 9790215325388. 9
x 12 inches.
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 1-6 is ms. Wc,
Washington (DC), Library
of Congress, Ms. M. 574.
B Case, olim M. 572. B65
Case [RISM A/II: deest].
Written in Madrid in 1811
by François de Fossa,
it derives from a copy
prepared by Boccherini
for the commissioner of
the pieces, Francisco
Borja de Riquer y de Ros,
marquis of Benavent, an
amateur guitarist and
patron of Boccherini from
1796.
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.
francois-de-fossa
