PESCETTI

PESCETTI

PESCETTI, Giovanni Battista (b Venice c1704–d Venice 1766), Kyrie e Gloria, II/P/9/8

Mus. 2967-D-1,1; Mus. 2967-D-1,2

PESCETTI

PESCETTI, Giovanni Battista (b Venice c1704–d Venice 1766)

Kyrie e Gloria

Schranck II; Fach 9; Lage 8

II/P/9/8

‘a 5 voci, co’ VVni Vla. Basso, Corni e Trombe’

None marked in the Catalogo

Messa nuova Concertata à Quattro Voci (Mus. 2967-D-1,1)

Masses

1758 [?]

Mus. 2967-D-1,1. Bound part-autogr. score [8vo]. Blue-grey wrapper.
Label on wrapper: No: 1 | G moll | Messa Concertata | à 4. Voce | 2) Violini 2) Oboi | 2) Trombe 2) Corni | Viola | et | Basso | dell’ Sigr Pescetti | AR. 9 f 8 L (left: this is the location given in the Catalogo of 1765).
Title page (hand of Baldan): Messa | Nuova | Concertata à Quattro Voci | Con Tutti Li Strumenti 1758: del Sigr Gio: Batta Pescetti.
This score comprises Kyrie, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei. (See below).
Mus. 2967-D-1,2: Bound manuscript score copy; same provenance as Mus. 2967-D-1,1. Blue-grey wrapper. Label on wrapper: No. 1 | Gloria | alla | Messa in G moll | dell | Sigr Pescetti | 9. f 8. L (red pencil. Hand of F. A. Schubert). Tre lunae watermark.
‘The G. B. Pescetti score (Mus. 2967?-D-1, 1-2) is [...] from Baldan's copisteria. More precisely, the Kyrie and Credo in the first, small-format volume are from Baldan, and so, too, is the Gloria that is the sole occupant of the larger-format second volume. But the section with the Sanctus and Agnus Dei at the end of the first volume is visibly a composition autograph - thus in Pescetti's own hand. The title-page before the Kyrie describes the Mass as ‘Messa nuova concertata a quattro voci’. It is possible that in its original form, for Venetian use, the Mass was a Kyrie-Gloria-Credo ‘threesome’, but was extended to become a ‘Missa tota’ on request from Baldan (or from Dresden). Perhaps there was not time for Baldan to make a copy of the newly added final sections before dispatch to Dresden, which is why they remained in the composer's rather messy hand. This is a fine work well worth revival’. (e-mail from Michael Talbot. 10.12.2003).

Sächs. Landesbibliothek. Depositum der Kath. Hofkirche (each score)

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V. 7 (1902), 384–5: Pescetti, Giovanni Battista [...] 1 Kyrie e Gloria, 5 voc. c. strom. Ms. P. [Dresd. kath. Kirche.

Mus.2967-D-1,1: Pescetti, Giov. Batt.: Messa nuova Concertata à quattro Voci con tutti li strumenti. G moll. C. Part. u. St. 1 H. mit 21 St. 8vo u. 4to. Mus.-Mscr. Kyrie Credo Sanctus Agnus. Kath. Hofkirche. Stimmen stehen gesondertMus. 2967-D-1,2: Pescetti, Giov. Batt.: Gloria alla Messa in G moll. Part. 1 H. Mus.-Mscr. 8vo. Kath. Hofkirche

Two scores (one part-autogr.) for a mass by Pescetti held by SLUB (Mus. 2967-D-1,1; -D-1,2); 21 parts for Mus. 2967-D-1,1 (Kyrie, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) missing from Dresden.

02-09-08