Copying Strategies in the Manuscript Dissemination of Luigi Boccherini’s Trios Opus 1
Rudolf A. Rasch · De musica disserenda · 2015
Nearly sixty extant manuscripts contain one or more of Boccherini’s six Trios op. 1 composed in 1760. It appears that copyists could follow different procedures when copying a work: they could create variants and errors, but also corrections, improvements, revisions and even arrangements.