Edition Güntersberg is a German publishing house of classical music, focused on compositions for the

viola da gamba The viola da gamba (), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later violin family, violin, or ; and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bow (m ...

. It was founded in

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in 1990 by Günter von Zadow and Leonore von Zadow-Reichling, who is a professional gambist. In addition to works from

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

and

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

, the company has published music from the early classical period, for both viola da gamba, for example by

Carl Friedrich Abel Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the pre-Classical period (music), Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viol, viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument ...

, and

baryton The baryton is a bowed string instrument similar to the viol, but distinguished by an extra set of sympathetic but also pluckable strings. It was in regular use in Europe until the end of the 18th century. Design The baryton can be viewed as a ...

, including works by

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( ; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

Publishing history

In 2007 they published several works by

Dieterich Buxtehude Dieterich Buxtehude (; born Diderich Hansen Buxtehude, ; – 9 May 1707) was a Danish composer and organist of the Baroque music, Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school. As a composer who worked in various vocal ...

, including '' Mit Fried und Freud'', one of the few works printed during the composer's lifetime. A copy is held by the Badische Landesbibliothek, shown in

facsimile A facsimile (from Latin ''fac simile'', "to make alike") is a copy or reproduction of an old book, manuscript, map, art print, or other item of historical value that is as true to the original source as possible. It differs from other forms of r ...

along with the new edition. A review of their edition of a duo sonata for violin and viola da gamba by Buxtehde noted the detailed preface, relevant for

historically informed performance Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western classical music, classical music which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of ...

, and a facsimile of the original, also the setting in modern style faithful to the composer's accidentals, and without added dynamic marking. Players find both a score with figured bass, and a keyboard part with a suggestion. They published the many

string trio A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. From at least the 19th century on, the term "string trio" with otherwise unspecified instrumentation normally refers to the combination violin, viola and cello ...

s for

, viola and cello by

, for example numbers 97 to 126 in 2009. In 2010 they published Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik's reconstruction of Bach's lost homage cantata '' O angenehme Melodei'', based on a wedding cantata. In 2016 they published Telemann's

Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo Georg Philipp Telemann's collection of Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba Solo, TWV 40:26–37, was published in Hamburg in 1735, titled ''Fantaisies pour la Basse de Violle''. The fantasias for viola da gamba were considered lost until an origin ...

(''Twelve Fantasies pour la Basse de Violle'') which had been thought to be lost. Based on research of a French musicologist, they were found in an archive and first performed by the gambist Thomas Fritzsch, who is also a musicologist teaching at the

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. The archive held a complete copy of the music, which Telemann had printed in 1735 in his own publishing house, in a private collection held at the (state archive of

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) in Osnabrück The Collection came from

Schloss Ledenburg Schloss Ledenburg (Ledenburg manor) is a moated Schloss in Bissendorf-Nemden, Osnabrück (district), Osnabrück district, Lower Saxony, Germany, which probably dates from the 15th century. Originally built with four wings, it was reduced to two wi ...

and is now called Ledenburg Collection. Fritzsch played the fantasias for the first time after their rediscovery in two concerts as part of the 23rd

Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage The Magdeburg Telemann Festival, first held in , has been held biennially in Magdeburg since in honour of Georg Philipp Telemann, usually around Telemann's birthday, the 14th of March. The first Magdeburg Telemann Festival days were organized 1 ...

on 19 and 20 March 2016, along with a recording (made at the abbey church of

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) and the presentation of the edition. The same collection held also three sonatas by

, published in 2016, Other publications from the collection include three sonatas by Giacobo Cervetto, two sonatas by

Giuseppe Tartini Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice (now Piran, Slovenia). Tartini was a prolific composer, composing over a hundred pieces for the ...

, a sonata by Juan Bautista Pla, two anonymous sonatas, a sonata by Filippo Ruge (1722 – after 1767), a sonata by

Pietro Castrucci Pietro Castrucci (1679 – 7 March 1752) was an Italian violinist and composer. Castrucci was born in Rome, where he studied with Arcangelo Corelli; in 1715, he settled in London, where he became known as one of the finest virtuoso violinists of ...

, a trio by , a trio by Johann Konrad Gretsch (ca. 1710 – 1778) and a trio attributed to Abel.

Abel Fest 2023

Günter von Zadow wrote in five years an extended new works list of Abel's compositions, ''Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel'', or AbelWV. It takes into account many newly discovered works, and additional sources for known works, presenting historic background of 416 works. It was published by Ortus Musikverlag in 2023, the year of the composer's tricentenary. At the Abel Fest, an international festival in the composer's birth town

Köthen Köthen () is a town in Germany. It is the capital of the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt, about north of Halle. Köthen is the location of the main campus and the administrative centre of the regional university, Anhalt Univers ...

in June 2023, Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow received the first biennial Abel Prize for their efforts to retrieve and publish Abel's works, having published more than 150 of the composer's works, many of them as first publications.

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