Sources
34. Scherzo

[Allegro vivo, A minor, 3/4]

34.A.1

I-Li
 (

N.IV.11 b recto

)

3rd page of a double leaf, 4° (32 × 25 cm) with 24 staves.
16 initial bars of 34.B.1 with the indication ”Scherzo”, above there is a sketch of 4 bars, below are some cancelled verbal (perhaps non-autograph) additions.
On the first page of the double leaf (= N.IV 12 b) is 35.A.2; on the fourth page (= N.IV.11 b verso) is 35.A.5; the second page is blank.

34.B.1

I-Li
 (

N.IV.11 a

)

1 double leaf with 3 pages of music, 4° oblong format (31.5 × 24.3 cm) with 12 staves. 61 bars + 3 cancelled bars. At the beginning of the music Puccini wrote: ”Scherzo / All° Vivo”.
The autograph indications of the instrumentation are written in the plural, as in the autograph score of the Allegretto movimento di gavotta, 104.B.1.

Fellerer 1937b, p. 689, reproduced the first 6 bars in form of a piano score.

Not Known

34.D.1

Copied source Portion Bibliographic reference Page number
34.B.1

p. 1

 Mostra 1974

p. 20.

34.D.2

Copied source Portion Bibliographic reference Page number
34.B.1

7 initial bars

 Bassi 1992

p. 15.

34.E.1

First edition of the full score:
Scherzo in La Minore per Quartetto d’Archi. A cura di Pietro Spada. Prima edizione.
Copyright 1985.
Boccaccini & Spada, Rome, 1985.
PN B.S.1115, 5 pages, 4°.

Based on 34.B.1.

34.E.2

In Quartetto in Re a cura di Dieter Schickling. Trascrizione, revisione e intergrazione del secondo e quarto movimente di Wolfgang Ludewig.
Ricordi, Milan, 2001.
PN 138559, XV + 52 pages, 4°.
(Third movement, Scherzo pp. 19-23).
Also parts: PN 138775.

Critical edition based on 34.B.1. Also includes a string quartet reduction of the Trio (34a) (pp. 23-26) based on 34a.A.2 and 34a.A.3.Note: The string quartet reduction of the Trio was formerly listed as 52.E.1 in Schickling 2003. 

 

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