The first recording of music by Saint-Luc that I could get hold of was the CD http://www.amazon.com/Works-Lute-Saint-Luc/dp/B0000265TY/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&; ie=UTF8&qid=1300914259&sr=1-8 by Stephen Stubbs (recommended!). In his booklet, he militated against the idea that this music was penned by father and son Saint Luc.
The thing is, I know of no early music by Saint Luc from, say, 1640 through 1680. The only collections that I'm aware of are those in Vienna (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Suppl. Mus. 1586) and in Prague (Hudební oddelení Nárdoní, Ms. X Lb 210). Concordances can be found in Warsaw, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Rps. 37 (olim Wroclaw Ms Mf 2006) and in Haslemere, The Dolmetsch Library, Ms. II.B.2. There is one ms. in Prague that contains much of Saint Luc's music in arrangements for the lute with violin and bass (Prague Ms. II Kk 49). Perhaps all of that music was composed by the son, i. e. Jacques Alexandre de Saint Luc? Mathias > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im > Auftrag von Martyn Hodgson > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. März 2011 17:25 > An: Baroque lute Dmth > Betreff: [BAROQUE-LUTE] PS to: Jacques de Saint-Luc > > > By chance I've just looked for any recorded music of Saint-Luc and saw > that there's a CD by a 'Jacques-Alexandre de Saint Luc' with > dates given as 1663 - c.1715. I have no knowledge of the source of > this information but it would certainly fit with the speculation of two > individuals with the same, or similar,names. The players are Jacques > Vandeville oboe and Daniel Fournier lute (and theorbo!). > > MH > --- On Wed, 23/3/11, Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > From: Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: Jacques de Saint-Luc > To: "Baroque lute Dmth" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Date: Wednesday, 23 March, 2011, 15:47 > > > The dates of this composer are generally given as 1616 - 1710 which > seems a phenomenal life span for the time and even more so when his > extant lute works seem to be in the style of the early decades of the > 18th century (even down to fashionable > doubling of the top and bottom line by strings) which would have made > him well into his 90s when these works were composed....... His > compositional style also seems much closer to Austro-germanic composers > like Logy, von Radolt, Hintherleithner et al who flourished around the > turn of the century being predominantly in a polarised treble and bass > manner. > > I can find little about this shadowy figure but am being drawn to the > speculation that there may have been two different composers with the > same name (father and son/nephew perhaps). Can anybody shed further > light? Perhaps I've missed a paper? > > One clue ought to be the names of pieces such as 'La Prise de > Barcellonne', which might suggest a date of 1705 or 1714 but could be > some earlier investment, or 'Le defaittes des Francois par les Allemand > Devant Turin' which suggests 1703. Again I find it hard to believe that > the same San Luc was composing such 'modern' programmatic music at such > a ripe old age. > > MH > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
