GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI, Sonata per Organo. Casa Musicale Edizioni Carrara, Bergamo (Italia), No. 4573. Though well-known for his “Stabat Mater” and other works, the four extant Sonate per cembalo o organo of Giovanni Pergolesi (1710–36) are relatively unknown. These works are less idiomatic to the organ than many other pieces of early keyboard repertory that were intended to be more-or-less suitable to any standard keyboard instrument. The present edition contains only the first sonata––a binary fast-movement that is primarily of a melody-and-accompaniment character, but with a good deal of hand-crossing. In the manuscript source at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples, this sonata is transmitted with extensive contemporaneous fingerings which are here published in full. These fingerings show that the right hand is often lifted vertically (e.g., in the use of 5-4-3, 3-2-1 for descending triplets, 2-3-4, 2-3-4 for ascending triplets, 1-2, 2-4 [also 1-3, 3-5, and 2-4, 2-4] for descending thirds, and other situations where the third and fourth fingers would otherwise cross), and that the fingers are often stretched horizontally (e.g., in the use of 3-5 for the interval of the fifth, and 3-2 for the interval of the fourth). Such fingerings testify to the kind of detached touch that has long been a part of modern early-music interpretation. Although considerations of historical fingering are necessarily qualified by questions of time, place, use, and intent, this edition will serve to highlight some of its most interesting features, as well as to draw attention to a mainstream (or near-mainstream) composer not normally associated with the organ.