HAYDN, Joseph 1732-1809

[Hob. XI:57-62]. Sei Trio per Violino, Viola, e Violoncello. [Set of parts]

Venezia: Antonio Zatta e Figli, [ca. 1787].

Oblong folio. Sewn. Three parts, each with identical title (excepting instrument names). Engraved throughout.

Violino: [i] (title incorporating decorative engraved border with floral motifs and musical instruments including lute, recorder, trumpet, and violin), 15 pp.
Viola: [i] (title), 14, [i] (blank) pp.
Violoncello: [i] (title), 12, [i] (blank) pp.

With "Proprietà di Bianconi de Valleta" in contemporary ink to lower outer corner of title to viola part: "Per uso di [cancelled]," and, in another hand, to lower outer corner of each title.

Violin: Title detached, soiled, foxed, and stained, with some marginal dampstaining, losses to edges, and small holes; light dampstaining, mainly to upper outer quadrant of first and final leaves; occasional small stains.
Viola: Staining and soiling to title; stain to blank outer upper corner of all leaves; occasional stains and soiling.
Violoncello: Some foxing and small stains, mainly to blank margins; final blank leaf stained and soiled.

First Edition. Rare. Hoboken 7, 966. RISM H3816.

Originally composed for baryton trio in 1768 during Haydn's period of service to Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714-1790), here cast in a version for violin, viola, and cello.

Antonio Zatta, fl. late 18th century, was an Italian printer and publisher. "He was in business with his sons under the name ‘Antonio Zatta e figli Librai e Stampatori veneti,’ with premises in Venice ‘al traghetto di S Barnaba’; theirs was the largest engraving works in the city, their activity dating back to about 1750. ... From 1786 the firm began printing, on its own press from engraved plates, a weekly piece of instrumental music for sale by subscription; in the following years this initiative expanded to include trios, duos, quartets, symphonies or sonatas for various instruments, and even vocal pieces, issued on a monthly basis. In the letters circulated to ‘professori e dilettanti di musica,’ inviting them to become subscribers, the firm explained the preponderance of instrumental music by the fact that Italy ‘abounds without doubt more in professional and amateur players than in singers.’ Instrumental works by Corelli, Bertoni, Boccherini, Capuzzi, Andreozzi, Cirri, Cambini, Pichl, Fodor, Stabinger, Grazioli, Haydn, Mozart and Salieri, and vocal pieces (arias by Cimarosa, Guglielmi, Paisiello, Anfossi, Naumann, Gazzaniga, Borghi, Traetta and Piccinni) were printed and published. Many of Zatta’s editions were reprints from German or Viennese publications, especially of Hoffmeister’s, a publisher with whom Zatta had connections. Zatta also published didactic methods (Pfeiffer, La bambina al cembalo) and music theory. After 1788 all editorial activity ceased, but Zatta continued to trade in music publications. One of Antonio’s daughters, Marina, married the publisher Sebastiano Valle, who continued the work of the Zatta family until about 1806." Mariangela Donà in Grove Music Online.

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