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amati - 03/03/09 11:03:34

Henry Eccles was a member of an English family of musicians and from 1674 until 1710 was a violinist in the Kings Band. He did not feel that he was receiving proper recognition in England and moved to Paris and joined the orchestra of the French court; he remained in Paris until his death in 1742. In Paris, Eccles published a book of 12 violin sonatas in 1720 that was followed three years later by another book of 12 sonatas. Recent musicological research has revealed that various movements of these sonatas were copied note for note from the works of other composers, primarily Giuseppe Valentini and Nicola Matteis. Serge Koussevitzky included the Eccles A Minor Sonata in his own transcription on his doublebass recitals at the turn of the century, and it has remained in the standard repertory for doublebass since that time.

That quote is from my program notes for the work. It appears that Eccles wrote the two fast movements and lifted the two slow ones from other composers, but I have never been able to find which specific works. All I was ever able to learn about this is included in this reply.

Harmon Lewis

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