It figures that it would be a Spanish king! =) Would anyone have a source for this fact?
Jorge On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Mathias Rösel wrote: >> Dear friends, >> I seem to remember having read somewhere a story about a French lutenist >> (Vieux Gautier perhaps) playing before some king: the king praises his > playing but >> adds something like “It is a pity he doesn’t play the guitar” provoking > the >> lutenist’s anger. >> Does anybody can help me finding the quotation (if didn’t dream about this >> story)? > > That is about Jacques Gaultier, playing before the Spanish king in 1630. > > Mathias > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
