Collection of eighteenth-century Spanish keyboard music : copyist's manuscript, 1786.
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund in 2014.
Paul Guinard.
Keyboard works primarily by Antonio Soler; includes works by Rafael Anglés and Pedro Carrera y Lanchares.
According to the description of this source in Samuel Rubio's Antonio Soler: catálogo crítico (Madrid: Instituto de música religiosa de la diputación provincial de Cuenca, 1980), the present manuscript apparently had a title page which stated: "Quaderno de Sonatas, y Versos, que compuso el / Pe Fr. Antonio Soler, Maestro de Capilla de el / Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial / Son de Vicente Torreño. / Las que copié en el presente Año de 1786."
Fols. 1r-53v: 29 sonatas by Soler (R28-31; R55; R69; R32; R57; R33; R70-72; R34; R73-74; R16-17; R26-27; R75-82; R49; R120); fols. 53v - 56r: a "cantabile" not classified as a sonata; fols. 56r - 60v: a series of minuets and rondos; fols. 61r - 79r: "Salmodia de Dn. Rafael Angles, para Vicente Torreño" on the eight tones; fol. 79v blank; fol. 79a blank; fols. 80r - 83v: "Juego de versos de todos tonos" by Barrera [Pedro Carrera y Lanchares fl. 1786-1815] ; fols. 84r-92r: 16 verses for "Te Deum" by Soler (R152); folio 92v blank.
Torreño, Vicente.
Soler, Antonio, 1729-1783. Keyboard music. Selections.
Anglés, Rafael, 1730-1816. Keyboard music. Selections.
Carrera y Lanchares, Pedro. Keyboard music. Selections.
Guinard, Paul, former owner.