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Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: f
Call No.: MS Mus 6
Creator: Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805.
Title: Chamber music,
Date(s): 1780-1804.
Quantity: 5 v. (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Chamber music by Italian composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini.

Acquisition Information:

Historical Note

Boccherini was an Italian composer and cellist.

Scope and Content

Includes nineteenth-century transcriptions of manuscript scores of string quartets and quintets by Boccherini.

Container List

• Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805. [Collection of unpublished chamber music, dated 1780-1804] 5v.
  Ms.; [Paris, n.d. (ca. 1850)]
  The transcripts were evidently made for L. Picquot, Boccherini's biographer and bibliographer.
  • (1) Due terzetti per due violini e violoncello obligato ... Op. 54. Ano 1796. Picquot, p. 168.
    Nos. 2 and 3 of the Sei terzetti; the other has been published.
  • (2) Sei quartettini per due violini, viola e violoncello obligato, Op. 33. Ano. 1781. Picquot, p. 154-155.
  • (3) Omitted from series.
  • (4) Due quartettini per due violini, viola e violoncello obligato ... Op. 42 bis. - Ano 1789. Picquot, p. 161.
  • (5) Due quartettini per due violini, viola e violoncello obligato ... Op. 43. Ano 1790. Picquot, p. 162.
  • (6) Sei quartettini per due violini, viola e violoncello ... Op. 44 - ano 1792. Picquot, p. 163-164.
  • (7) Sei quartettini per due violini, viola e violoncello obligato ... Op. 48. - Ano 1794. Picquot, p. 164-165.
  • (8) Due quartetti per due violini, viola e violoncello ... Op. 64. - Ano 1804. Picquot, p. 172-173.
    The latter, which is unfinished, was Boccherini's last work.
  • (9) Sei quintettini per due violini, viola e due violoncelli ... Op. 30 - ano 1780. Picquot, p. 151-152.
  • (10) Tre quintetti per due violini, viola e due violoncelli obligati ... Op. 31. - Ano 1780. Picquot, p. 153-154.
    These are nos. 2, 3, and 5 of the Sei quintetti which originally formed the opus. Picquot was unable to find a copy of the first violin part of the first of these, which is complete in the present transcript.
  • (11) Sei quintettini [?] per due violini, viola e due violoncelli obligati ... Op. 36. - Ano 1786. Picquot, p. 157-158.
  • (12) Quintettino per due violini, viola e due violoncelli obligati ... Op. 42 bis. - Ano 1789. Picquot, p. 161.
  • (13) Quintetto e quintettino per due violini, viola e due violoncelli obligati ... Op. 43. - Ano 1790. Picquot, p. 162.
  • (14) Due quintettini per due violini, viola e due violoncelli obligati ... Op. 50. Ano 1795. Picquot, p. 165.
    Nos. 3 and 6 of the Sei quintetti of the op. 50 piccola; the others have been published.
  • (15) Sei quintetti per due violini, due viole e violoncello ... Op. 60. - Ano 1801. Picquot, p. 169.
    Only the first 3 bars of no. 4 are transcribed; it is also lacking in the only other transcripts known.
  • (16) Sei quintetti per due violini, due viole e violoncello ... Op. 62. - Ano 1802. Picquot, p. 170-172.