partimento o sia il basso fondamentale sopra il Cembalo 298 Disposizione over partimenti by Giovanni Paisiello, in two large handwritten volumes. Presumably written by his student in composition Auguste Louis de Talleyrand. The name 'Taleyrand' appears on the inside of the cover of volume 2. Besides the 45 partimenti from Paisiello's Regole per bene accompagnare, the Taleyrand dispositions contain 41 partimenti that had not been previously known. These volumes are preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (F-Pn Rés Vmb Ms. 10/1 and 10/2). Editions Stefano Faglia, Franca Saini (ed.): Il Mondo della Luna, Saint Petersburg, 1783. Monza, Accademia Musicale IAMR, 2006. Parma, L'oca del Cairo Edizioni Musicali, 2006. References Further reading External links Score manuscripts and publications by Giovanni Paisiello on archive.org John A. Rice, "Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello" John A. Rice, "Opera Seria in Theory and Practice: Alessandro Pepoli's 'Lettera ad un uomo ragionevole sul melodramma detto serio' (1790) and His Libretto for Paisiello's I giuochi d'Agrigento (1792) 1740 births 1816 deaths 18th-century Italian musicians 18th-century Italian male musicians 19th-century Italian musicians 19th-century Italian male musicians Italian Classical-period composers Neapolitan school composers Italian male classical composers Italian opera composers Male opera composers People from Taranto String quartet composers