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12 Kassel Sonatas for viola da gamba: Sonatas 5-8

Composer: Handel; George Frideric (1685-1759)

Instrumentation: Viola da gamba & bc

Author/editor/arranger: von Zadow

Publisher: Edition Güntersberg

Format: Sheet music

Product code: G270

Tags: viola da gamba

£21.30

These twelve sonatas are from an anonymous manuscript in the Kassel University Library whose title describes them as viola da gamba sonatas. However, they lie much too high for bass viol, so that specialists have long wondered how they could be played. In this edition, the viol part has been taken down an octave, and the two parts then transposed a third lower. As a result, viola da gamba players can now play these fine sonatas for the first time.

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