Bettina Hoffmann
Catalogue of Solo and Chamber Music for Viola da Gamba
Abel, Carl Friedrich
Aria «Frena le belle lacrime» for soprano, viola da gamba obbligata, strings and basso continuo (ZadA 8:1; WKO deest)
in
Sifari (Sifare), opera-pasticcio, with music by Carl Friedrich Abel, Baldassare Galuppi, Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi and Johann Christian Bach,
published in The Favourite Songs in the Opera Sifari
London, Welcker
A-Wn-h, GB-Lbl, US-U, US-Wc
Fretwork
The opera Sifari premiered on 5 march 1767, at King’s Theatre, London. The complete score is lost, only the arias are preserved thanks to the printed edition.
A/I BB 182a
B/II, p. 177
https://vdgs.org.uk/, ABEL CF-58
ZadA: Peter Holman and Günter von Zadow, Charles Frederick Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music: A New Catalogue, Second Revised Version, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», Vol. 11 (2017), pp. 73–136 (previous version: Peter Holman, Charles Frederick Abel’s Viola da Gamba Music: A New Catalogue, Revised Version, «The Viola da Gamba Society Journal», 8, 2014, pp. 77-117).
WKO: Walter Knape, Bibliographisch-thematisches Verzeichnis der Kompositionen von Karl Friedrich Abel, Cuxhaven, 1971
Peter Holman, Life after Death: the Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch, 2010, pp. 229-231
