Dear Arto, Thank you for calling our attention to this composer. The tiorba-voice combination during Keiser's time seems to have been quite popular.
Best regards, Marion Mezzosoprano -----Original Message----- From: Arto Wikla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: May 4, 2005 3:54 AM To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: Re: Reinhard Keiser's "Croesus" I still contunue my own message. :-) On Wednesday 04 May 2005 12:33, I wrote: > So it is Reinhard Keiser's "Croesus", printed 1711! > > I asked also in the rec.music.early and got a link to Keiser's bio: > http://www.stadt-teuchern.de/reinhard_keiser_biographie.htm There are also pages by Reinhard Keiser Society. And there info also in English, quite long bio included: http://www.reinhard-keiser-verein.de/ > How so good music is so rarely performed? What gems from that period > still wait to be found? Keiser seem to have composed 70 operas! And at least 15 still exist! Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
