Biamonti 221- 4 Sketches in D minor for string quartet.
The musical examples and texts on this page are by Graziano Denini.
Biamonti 221- Sketches (4) in D minor for string quartet. They can be found on pages 58 (lines 1 – 6), 61 (lines 9 – 10), 64 (lines 5 -6), 65 (lines 5 – 7) of the Landsberg notebook 7 (so called from the name of its former owner, Professor Paul Landsberg of Breslau); published in printed reproduction by Mikulicz, from whom we have faithfully reproduced them, and correspond respectively to pages 54, 57, 60 and 61 of his publication. They are to be referred to the final part of the second movement of the Opus 18 Quartet number 1.
Biamonti 221 – 1 is found on page 58 in the entire page
Biamonti 221 – 2 = found on page 61 lines 9/10
Biamonti 221 – 3 = found on page 64 lines 5/6
Biamonti 221 n. 4 = found on page 65 at lines 5/7
Notes by Mikulicz
In Sketch no. 1, the notation appears fairly thick, similar to the trio sections on the previous two pages. The passage is most likely to be read as oboe, although the strokes are completely smudged, as is the first note a2. The notation marked “sic!” appears exactly as such in the source. The dynamic fp and the note b are not entirely certain. This bar, along with the first one in line 6, is uncertain. In the second chord, it seems that an a1 or a D2 might have been crossed out.
In Sketch no. 2, there is nothing noteworthy to report.
Sketch no. 3 is again written in black ink, here and in the ff section. The dot following f1 lies on the g1 line, while the note head underneath sits on the e1 line.
In Sketch no. 4, there is a possible indication of a (minim) g1. The end of the bar is quite unclear, and the last three notes are written outside the stave. The two d2 appear roughly in line with the space corresponding to c2, and previously there may have been an a2 or g2. In the first bar of the line, the (quaver rest) is ambiguous—it resembles a printed eighth-note rest. Possibly, the dot after c# and a (semiquaver) a1 have run together; the vertical stroke begins on the h1 line. There is an ink blot above the (quaver) A. The notation is somewhat indistinct in this area. In the original manuscript, the note is cis, but it is more likely to be interpreted as a (quaver rest); the first (semiquaver) in the original appears as e.