Hello Arthur. Thank you for pointing us to Lebetter's article.
The first footnote is very interesting and has had me doing a little further searching about Dirksen's ideas about the lute/lautenwerk online. (The books don't seem to be in our library's holdings.) Pieter Dirksen's site does tempt with these comments: http://www.pieterdirksen.nl/Articles.htm Überlegungen zu Bachs Suite f-Moll BWV 823, in: Bachs Claviermusik. Bericht über das 4. Dortmunder Bach-Symposion 2002, ed. Martin Geck (Dortmunder Bachforschungen, Bd. 5; Witten: Klangfarben-Verlag, 2003), 119-131. A study of a much-neglected keyboard work by Bach, demonstrating that it is neither early nor incomplete (as has been suggested in earlier research) but rather stems from Bachs maturity. This three-movement suite belongs to a group of pieces from c.1740 which demonstrates his fascination with the lute and lute-inspired writing as well as with the lute harpsichord. and Johann Sebastian Bach en het Luitclavecimbel, in: Het Clavecimbel 9/2 (November 2002), 29-33. Johann Sebastian Bach seems to have been fascinated by the lute harpsichord throughout his life, and many of the documents concerning this vanished instrument type are directly or indirectly related to him. His so-called lute music BWV 995-1000 is on the whole as problematic with regard to the real lute as it seems inextricabily bound up with the lute harpsichord. Several other pieces such as BWV 823, 876/1, 964, 968 and 1006a seem associable with this exotic keyboard instrument type as well. and also this addendum to "Unaccompanied Bach" http://davidledbetter-music.com/?page_id=25 238 For a possible further suite for lute/Lautenwerk see Pieter Dirksen, Überlegungen zu Bachs Suite f-Moll BWV 823, Bachs Musik für Tasteninstrumente, ed. M. Geck (Dortmund: Klangfarben- Musikverlag, 2003) 11931 Thanks again! -- R On Dec 6, 2011, at 12:13 PM, A. J. Ness wrote: > This anthology includes and interesting essay by David Ledbetter > on BWV > 997 and BWV 998: > > > > [1]http://www.bachnetwork.co.uk/ub6-2011.html > > > > He also cites a writer who believes BWV 823 might also be > intended for > lute. > > > > David Ledbetter is best known for his excellent monograph on > 17th-century French keyboard and lute music, a book that might > well be > consulted in the study of that repertory. In reference to Ed > Martin's > query, Ledbetter authored the Dubut and Mercure articles in New > Grove. > The CNRS edition of Debut and Mercure are both edited by Monique > Rollin > and Jean-Michael Vaccaro (not Souris). > > > > > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.bachnetwork.co.uk/ub6-2011.html > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
