State Library provides a rare notes into the net

State Library provides a rare notes into the net

After three years of digitization, the Saxon State Library - State and
University Library in Dresden almost forgotten music of the Baroque on
the Internet. Under the 1750 music manuscripts of nearly 200 German and
European composers of the first half of the 18th Century were also
compositions by Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann
Friedrich Fasch, said the State Library on Friday. The notes come from
the "cabinet II" of the Dresden court orchestra. The project was funded
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

In that "cabinet II 'was the instrumental repertoire of the orchestra,
the Staatskapelle present, and the estate of the violin virtuoso and
concertmaster Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) kept. The writings were
preserved, as the court notes archive burned in a 1760 Prussian
artillery bombardment.

The works include solo sonatas, concertos and orchestral suites large.
The notes can be viewed on screen or as PDF files for free download.