Dix oeuvres de duo à M. de Gallatin 1er lieutenant auc garde Suisses: violino primo - Cauciello, Prospero; Boccherini, Luigi 1743-1805; Kammel, Antonin 1730-1784; Avolio, Jean; Signoretti, Pietro 1731-1815; Fritz, Gaspard 1716-1783; Gossec, François Joseph 1734-1829; Leduc, Simon 1742-1777 (Paris)
Prospero Cauciello, 6 duo à 2 violons, op. 2; Luigi Boccherini, 6 duo pour 2 violons; Antonin Kammel, 6 duets pour 2 violins, op. 2; Jean Avolio, 6 duetti per 2 violini, op. 2; Giuseppe Signoretti, 6 duos à 2 violons, op. 1; Kaspar Fritz, 6 sonate a 2 violini, op. 5; François-Joseph Gossec, 6 duetti per 2 violini, op. 7; Simon Leduc "l'Ainé", 6 petits duos pour 2 violons, op. 6; Simon Leduc "l'Ainé", 6 duos pour 2 violons, op. 3
Violino primo only
Pages 3-6 of the Kammel duets are handwritten
The duets are part of a binding with nine sets of duets for violins which once belonged, according to the inscription on the binding to "M. de Gallatin, 1er Lieutenant aux Gardes Suisses". This is Gabriel-Gaspar de Gallatin (1758-1838), a Swiss nobleman who fought in America in 1780-1781 against the British army and who later served in the Swiss Guard of Louis XVI
Ex libris M. de Gallatin (plate)
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Instrumental music; Duet; Violin; Brossard; Nivers; viool; Hotteterre; Italiaanse invloed in Frankrijk; klavecimbel; Rameau, J.P.; klavecimbelconcerten; pardessus de viole