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