Description
Provenance: Original owner (and compiler?): Hinrich (Heinrich) Christoph Engelhart (Engelhardt) (1694-1765).
The Swedish Musical Heritage entry for Engelhart provides the following information:
‘Engelhardt seems to have appeared in the Royal Court chapel in Stockholm on certain occasions, as did his son, Carl Diedrich Engelhardt, who was among the recipients of the music scholarships in Uppsala. Carl Diedrich, who eventually became a royal physician and settled in Gothenburg, donated, in 1798, his father’s music collection, not to Uppsala but to the university chapel of Lund.
The collection comprises about 750 items and is likely to contain the material played by the academic chapel in Uppsala, even though it cannot be ascertained whether all these pieces were in use there. By far the most frequent composer’s name in the collection is George Frideric Handel; followed by Carl Heinrich and (…) Graun, Johann Adolph Hasse, Johan Helmich Roman and Antonio Vivaldi, and by a plethora of composers, some of whom are remembered today, but most of whom are forgotten.
In Engelhardt’s collection is a part of the music that he prepared for the ceremonies at Uppsala University. It is largely pieces taken from various works in keeping with the taste of the time, for example, Handel, Graun and Johan Agrell, possibly supplemented with music by Engelhardt himself. He, or someone else, has provided the vocal parts with texts, appropriate for the academic celebrations’.
Description: Lund Engelhart is a collection of twenty keyboad pieces by various composers. Five of the pieces – all from the Essercizi – are by Scarlatti.
Titles: Except for K2 (‘Scalatti’), none of the sonatas is explicitly attributed to Scarlatti by the original copyist.
Copyist: Presumably Engelhart himself. A single hand copied out the entire collection.
Comments: All of the sonatas use the C1 clef (instead of G2) for the top stave.
Date: If copied by Engelhart, this collection was compiled sometime between 1739 and 1765.
