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Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era

Carl Friedrich Abel
Six Selected Symphonies
Edited by Sanford Helm
 
 
C 3 ISBN 0-89579-094-7 (1977) xi+85 pp. $36.00
  ISBN 978-0-89579-094-1 (13-digit)    

Abel, a lifelong fried of J. C. Bach, was in the center of London musical life in the early Classical era. These symphonies illustrate the inception of symphonic form, particularly through the choice of movement types.

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Contents
Overture (Op. 1, No. 4); Overture (Op. 4, No. 2); Overture (Op. 7, No. 1) [Simphonie]; Overture (Op. 10, No. 1) [Simphonie]; Sinfonia (Op. 14, No. 2); Sinfonia (Op. 17, No. 1) [Overture]