This edition of Vingt Menuets Pour le Clavecin by Maria Rosa Coccia (1759–1833), never before published, is based on a manuscript dating from 1783 found in the Neapolitan convent archive of San Gregorio Armeno. Six of the minuets are for clavecin, fifteen of the pieces have additional parts marked for violini. The minuets are written in the galant style characteristic of the period and follow the form of the Menuet Ordinaire.

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