Dear Arthur,
thank you very much for your list of Falckenhagen's works.
Indeed the matter is very confusing, as there are many historical
anouncements in newspapers then (of which I don't have copies; J.
Domning reports them) and the title page of "Opera Nuovo" doesn't give
any opus number.
Anyway I think, that it is possible, even probable, that the "Opera
Nuovo" are the same as "Opera IV", as they bear a very low plate number
of Haffner. The have the "III", as you also point out.
This is even more probable, because of the fact - I hope not to have
missed a thing -, that no other ensemble works beside op. III+IV had
been announced.
Op. 5 is a missing print of sonatas for solo lute and doesn't have to do
anything with "Opera nuovo" (to correct a misleading sentence by myself,
which also might have increased the confusion).
Best regards
Markus
Am 09.05.2015 um 00:39 schrieb AJN:
Dear Markus and Peter,
Perhaps I might belatedly add some additional information from a source
I should have consulted when we discussed these
works, Peter. It is a bit confusing, and even expert music catalogers
and bibliographers have been lead astray.
Beginning in the 16th century and for many centuries thereafter
Leipzig hosted an Easter book fair.
For each year a published catalog listed the new works and revised
works, including music, which
were available for purchase from dealers at the fair.
The catalogs are a valuable bibliographical tool for matters such as
ours.
For nearly a century, from 1664 until 1759, the Leipzig firm of Johann
Gross (and heirs) published them:
//*Catalogus universalis, hoc est, designatio omnium librorum . . .
vel novi vel emendatieres et auctiores prodierunt*\\
Indicated below with <Gr plus year>.
In catalogs from 1736, 1738 and 1743, the titles of eight works by
Falckenhagen are listed, five with opus
numbers:
[Op. 1] Sonate [6] a Liuto solo . . . dedicate . . . Federica Sofia
Villemina,Margravia di Brandenburgo.
Opera prima. .. fol. NA 1/4rnberg: Haffner. <Gr 1743> RISM F71:
copies at B-Bc, D-Rp, D-LEm, GBaLbm
[Op. 2] Sei Partite a Liuto solo. Opera seconda. fol. kosten 2 Th. NA
1/4rnberg: Haffner. <Gr 1743>
RISM F72: copies at B-Bc, DaBds, GB-Lbm
[Op. 3] Sei Concerti a Liuto, Traverso [A^2] OboA<< [A^2] Violino &
Violoncello . . . Opera terza.
NA 1/4rnberg: Haffner. <Gr 1743> RISM F73a-a>supplement F72a: plate
no. I: copy of lute part
only at PL-Wu.
[Op. 4] [Sei] Concerti a Liuto, Traverso [A^2] OboA<< & Violoncello . .
. Opera quarta. NA 1/4rnberg: Haffner.
<Gr 1743> No copy known to survive. But we now know it existed at one
time, and maybe . . .
[Op. 5] [Sei] Sonatine da Camera a Liuto solo. Opera quinta. NA
1/4rnberg: Haffner.
<Gr 1743> No copy known to survive.
[Op. nuova] [Sei] Concerti a Liuto, Traverso OboA<< A^2 Violino
&Violoncello . . . Opera nvova dedicati a
Sua Altezza Serenissima . . . Ernesto Avgvsto, Duca di Sassonia, . . .
Duca regnante du Sassonia-Weimar.
NA 1/4rnberg:Haffner.
<Gr deest>; RISM F73, plate no. III (ca. 1743): unique copy from
DaWRtl, now at
DaWRz (RISM mistakenly cites a copy at PL-Wu; that print is not the
same. It=Opera terza,
above). This copy from the private Thurn und Taxis Hofbibliothek,
Regensberg
The card catalogue at WRz gives the full title and the cataloger cites
cross references including a
"Uniform Title: Trios, Lt Ob Vc, Op. 4."
This croass reference seems to be the reason some modern editions
(including our Joachim's Gesamptausgabe)
cite this print as Op. 4 (Opera IV), although no where in the print
itself is it so designated.
It remains improbable that a copy of Opera quarta was available for
comparison.
That is, "Op. 4" seems to be a music cataloger's addition.
The plate number (III) is also sometimes mistaken as an opus
number,e.g. RISM F73
(above) and New Grove which give "Op. 3."
The g minor concerto (No. 5) is rehearsed on You Tube by
John Schneiderman, "An Evening with Wilhelmine" (Sofia Wilhelmine of
Brandenburg,
Fredrickthe Great's sister and Falckenhagen's first patroness.) The
"opera nuova" concertos are
sometimes called flute concerti in modern scores and CDs.
The other works are [Sei] Sonate di Liuto solo <Gr 1736>;
La premier douzaine des Menuets pour le Lut <Gr 1738>;
Sonate del Liuto solo (Vienna) <Gr 1748>
Not listed is Erstes Dutzend . . . Geistlicher-GesACURnge (Haffner pl.
no. XXII, 1746).
RISM F 74. Copies at B-Bc, GB-Lbl and (not listed in RISM) US-Wc.
Arthur
On 05/02/15, Markus Lutz<[1]mar...@gmlutz.de> wrote:
Hi Peter,
op. IV has survived actually (from Jochen Domnings page:
Op. IV, Sei Concerti, gewidmet Herzog Ernst August von Weimar (Haffner,
Druck Nr. III.)
Weimar, Zentralbibliothek der Deutschen Klassik, M 8 27 a+b
Op. IV are 6 concertos with flute/violin and basso (all parts available
at Trekel Musik )
Probably the opera nuova is meant to be the same as Op. V, which we
don't have.
Best regards
Markus
Am 02.05.2015 um 16:27 schrieb Peter Danner:
> Hi Chris
>
> Having written the liner notes for John Schneiderman's recording of
> Falckenhagen's "opera nova" (a CD apparently never released), and
> having discussed the matter in detail with Arthur Ness and others, I
> fear only the lute part to Op. 3 survives. Unfortunate. So much of
> Falckenhagen's music seems to be lost.
>
> Whether or not opera nuova is identical to a cataloged "op. IV" (as
> Joachim Domning claims), remains to be seen, depending on actually
> finding a copy of "op. IV."
>
> I look forward to receiving your new CD, Chris.
>
> Peter Danner
>
>
>
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