Keyboard Music from about 1700 (Vol.4) Collection

This critical first edition in four volumes makes two previously unknown manuscripts with music for keyboard instruments (organ, piano or harpsichord) from the time around 1700 accessible to the music world. The South Tyrolean cleric and composer Elias de Silva (c. 1665–1732) is believed to be the copyist of the first manuscript, and a second, anonymous manuscript comes from the Cistercian monastery of Stams. The compositions selected for this edition provide a fascinating insight into typical musical practices of those days.

Volume 4 contains incomplete pieces from manuscript A, short pieces from manuscript B as well as additional comparative materials from sources outside Tyrol.