What's New on the FTCO Site

Added on 19 August 2012

• We inserted additional information, sources, and editions for the three fugues F 18.06S, 18.07S, and 18.08S by Gottlieb Muffat, misattributed to Frescobaldi.

Added on 27 April 2012

• A hitherto unknown early source for the Fantasie (1608) has been added to the sources database. Wolfgang Schönsleder's musical treatise Architectonice musices universalis, published in 1631 in Ingolstadt, was brought to our attention by Eric Bianchi of Fordham University for its several references to Frescobaldi. The treatise includes fifteen compositional examples credited to him, which have been identified as excerpts from Fantasias 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, and 10. To our knowledge these are the earliest examples of Frescobaldi's music to appear in print north of the Alps, although copies from the Fantasie do appear in several early North-European manuscripts.

Added on 1 April 2012

• In a brief article forthcoming in the February 2012 issue of Early Music, Claudio Annibaldi disputes some of Christine Jeanneret's identifications of Frescobaldi's handwriting and authorship. He has promised a more detailed discussion, to be published in the journal Il Saggiatore Musicale. Annibaldi's claims will affect a number of entries in this catalogue. Among the more important of the disputed identifications are the hands in Barb. Lat. 4181 and Barb. Lat. 4182 (and, by implication, of the author of their contents), and the authorship of the motets F 13.36, 13.37, and 13.38, which according to Annibaldi are the work of Virgilio Mazzocchi. We have added references to Annibaldi's article, but have decided not to alter the status in the catalogue of the works in question, pending study of the arguments presented in his forthcoming studies. If we decide that the assignment of those works is no longer tenable, we will modify the entries accordingly, but the works will not be dropped from the catalogue (see What's Included). Similarly, their F numbers will not be altered, except for the possible addition of the suffix S (see F Numbers).
  
  
• We encountered more detailed information on on the genesis Frescobaldi's most frequently performed––if spurious––composition, the Toccata for violoncello and piano (F18.05S), in a DMA dissertation on Gaspar Cassadó by Nathaniel J. Chaitkin, accessible online at http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/cassado/chapter2.htm. Appropriate references have been added to the composition entry.
  
  
• We continue to add new items to the bibliographies of editions and literature and to correct typographical and other errors.

Added in November 2011

• Two variation sets have been added to the Compositions: F15.60, Sonata prima [Partite sopra la Romanesca], and F 15.61, Sonata seconda [Partite sopra la Monica]. Both are found in Turin Foa 8, which also contains copies of Frescobaldi's published variations sets, including those on the Romanesca, F 2.13, and on la Monica, F 2.14. Both "sonatas" include variations that have elements in common with the published sets, but since they appear anonymously in the MS, they have drawn little attention.

• Thanks to the generosity of Maestro Marcello Garofalo, who loaned us a photocopy of the Garofalo MS, we were able to enter all the incipits, page numbers, etc. for this MS. (Present location of the MS is unknown.)

• An incipit has been added to F 15.29, the "Duresse de frescobaldi" in the Oldham MS. Bruce Gustafson kindly provided us with a transcription of this elusive work.

• On the F Numbers information page we have added the following statement: The F numbers will never be changed, and hence they can be used to uniquely identify a work on concert programs, recordings, new editions, etc.

• We are gradually converting all incipits to a uniform format, including notation software (Sibelius--some older incipits were set in Wolfgang), staff size, and editorial policies with respect to accidentals.