Michael Jappe

First Edition.

Janitsch holds a leading position among the great 'contrapuntalists' of his time in this genre with his baroque quadros, which are arranged in constantly changing instrumental combinations.

The Trio in G major, together with its sister work in E-flat major, is indisputably the highlight of the rare instrumentation: playfulness and charm, harmonic richness and wide-ranging thematic work c...

Borghi, Pugnani's most important pupil, 'refines his style by adding a certain sweetness and softness to the roughness of this school'. A valuable contribution to the rare viola d'amore literature.

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One of the newly discovered treasures of the Berlin Sing-Academy is the viola sonata in F major by Franz Benda, published here for the first time.

Hummel counts among the brilliant pioneers of an epoch who 'with passionate, subjectively excited, fantastic expression precede the High Romantic diction by decades'; his clarinet quartet bears witnes...

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It is a stroke of luck that three of Wranitzky's trios that were thought to have been lost could be tracked down again in Eastern European libraries, including our graceful, lilting trio.

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The duos are worth studying for their brilliant technical playing, as they need not fear comparison with the duos of the same instrumentation by a Carl Stamitz, Franz Danzi and Wenzel Pichl.

In this Duetto, the double bass is so high that it can be performed comfortably on a violoncello or viola da gamba. Unlike in three of Sperger's other sonatas, the viola here is completely equal.

The original Allegro opening movement of the E-flat major trio, discarded by Hummel as 'not valid' in the manuscript, may be considered a significant discovery for violists and is published here in th...

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Edited from the First Edition.

First Edition

The Sonata for Violoncello and Clavier by Carl Heinrich Graun, published by Amadeus as a FIRST PRINT, was composed in 1775, during the late Baroque transitional period when the fortepiano slowly began...

nach der Sonate für Klavier A-Dur KV 331

A source work, which alone by the abundance of until today undiscovered or unnoticed works for the viola becomes a treasure trove even of the science and the editors.