No time for a full-on summary of the last three days' events (that hopefully will come), but while I'm-a sittin' here waitin' for this CD to stop burning, here's a nugget...
I am STILL editing a worklist for Mr. run-off-the-musical-quill, Georg Phillip Telemann. Going through his "TWV" worklist I found this piece, which is not even listed in the New Grove:
TWV 40: 200 Quatour in la majeur, pour 2 violons, alto (meaning viola) et violoncello.
That I thought rather odd - an honest to goodness string quartet from Telemann. Even possible? The man was born four years before J. S. Bach! Well, to be fair in some quarters, Telemann is regarded as a forerunner of string quartet composition. In 1730 he self-published his "Quadri", a set of six flute quartets later to become known as the first half of the so-called "Paris Quartets". These were flute quartets written for flute, violin, viola & continuo, but with Telemann almost any chamber piece containing a solo part written for flute (not recorder) can be substituted for by a violin. And the "Paris Quartets" were (and are) often played that way.
But a continuo part is not quite the same thing as a cello part, inasmuch as a continuo pretty much has to follow the harmonic underpinning of the music to serve its function, where as the cello part in a string quartet can also function as an independent voice, or even take the melody at times. Nonetheless, I decided not to take the entry for TWV 40:200 at face value; after all, it could be an arrangement or transposition of something else in Telemann's worklist. I went on the hunt for more information, and turned up this file card in OHIOLINK:
Author Telemann, Georg Philipp, 1681-1767
Unif title Quartets, strings, A major
Title Streichquartett A-dur = String quartet in A major / Georg Philipp
Telemann
Publish info Kassel ; New York : Bärenreiter, 1963
Edition 3. Aufl
Descript'n score (4 parts) ; 29 cm
Series Hortus musicus ; 108
Hortus musicus ; 108
Note Cover title
Preface in German and English by Helmuth Christian Wolff
Edited from music ms. 3775/19 in Landesbibliothek, Darmstadt
Subjects String quartets -- Parts
LC NO M2 .H8 no.108
OCLC # 3193242
Whoa! So there it is. Perhaps this is what Grove's is referring to with their entry "15 other quartets, with one possibly spurious" (honestly, who could know with a vague entry like that!?) But if this is a genuine string quartet by Telemann, my guess is that it was probably written after 1752, as he was still publishing flute quartets at that time, and that it may only slighly predate, or more likely postdate, Franz Joseph Haydn's first efforts in the genre, generally agreed upon as having been written in 1758-1759. Interesting.
Past my sig is a playlist that's three weeks overdue. Better now than never, I always say.
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