Hi all! > I may be misremembering but I'm fairly sure I recollect a talk at the UK > Lute Society many years ago given by a (then) young Scandinavian about > some Baroque lute music in a very unusual key. As I recall he was > adamant that the key was not Eb but D#. Perhaps he was the person who > wrote the article. Maybe Chris Goodwin of the UK Lute Society could help?
Yes, I read a dissertation by a Swedish guy about this manuscript. It also contains a suite in G# major/Ab major, recorded by Thomas Schall, and an intabulation of an opera aria by an italian who lived in Sweden in the mid 18th century. The Ab major suite sounds like it might have been composed by a less talented follower of Weiss... I seem to recall the author claiming that D.A. Smith first thought the suite in Eb minor to be by Weiss, but that he later changed his mind. So maybe it was Falckenhagen? Or Lauffensteiner? Or...? Are To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
