what a beautiful story! Thank you for telling it! Manolo Arthur Ness wrote:
>http://www.musikschulen-sh.de/feriennote/BigBand.php?sessionid > >scroll down to the bottom picture. That's where they >went. But a general (Russian? German?) made the castle >into his headquarters. A junior office opened the boxes >and realized what they were. Because he feared the >general's headquarters might be bombarded, he took the >boxes of books a few miles down the road and stored them >in another castle. > >After the war, when the Germans came to get their boxes >they >were not where they left them. They asked the locals. >Oh, they had seen soldiers burning books to keep warm. >The >orignal scores to Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fifth had >served to cook eggs as far as the world knew. > >The Polish authorities found the boxes and in secret >moved them to Cracow as war reparations. Only about 15 >years ago did they acknowledge that they had them. >Everything survived! > >Arthur. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Peter Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "Lute list" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:23 AM >Subject: [LUTE] Re: Spinacino > > > > >>Thank you Arthur. What an extraordinary story, and >>what a happy ending. >> >>Howard Mayer Brown's book certainly lives on my desk. >>A good quality >>reprint is available on demand from iuniverse.com for >>the very reasonable >>price of $32.95. 560 jam-packed pages. >>http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1-58348-525-2 >> >>Peter >> >>On 20/04/07, Arthur Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >> >> >>>Yes, the photostats made for Gen=E8vieve Thibault, >>>are now >>>in the Biblioth=E8que nationale. The unique Berlin >>>copy of >>>Spinacino, long thought destroyed, was acknowledged >>>by >>>Polish authorities to be in Cracow only about 15 >>>years >>>ago. >>> >>>In Brown's bibliography* ALL of the prints marked >>>"D:Bds (L)" [for "Germany: Berlin, Deutsche >>>Staatsbibliothek (Lost)"] have survived at the >>>Jagiellonska Library in Cracow (about 50 16th-century >>>titles). When I was in Berlin, I >>>was able to consult the pre-war card catalogue in >>>then >>>East Berlin, and made >>>a listing of all the lute prints and manuscripts that >>>had been in the former Prussian State Library, >>>including >>>the >>>call-numbers. When finally only about 15 years ago, >>>the >>>Polish authorities admitted they had the Berlin >>>materials, I sent the list to an American guitarist >>>studying in Cracow. He confirmed that each and every >>>title was extant (except for an Adriannsen print). >>> >>>At first there was confusion, because many of the >>>volumes were Sammelb=E4nde (bound volumes containing >>>several often unrelated prints). When the collection >>>was catalogued, reputedly by Polish students, only >>>the >>>first >>>item in each Sammelband was noted. So through an >>>oversight, many prints >>>remained uncatalogued and were thought to have been >>>lost. Also all of the manuscripts of lute music have >>>survived, and an inventory* by Dieter Kirsch was >>>published a few years ago. >>> >>>So a third of the treasures of surely the most >>>important >>>collection of music ever assembled were for forty+ >>>years >>>thought to have been destroyed during World War II. >>>(These included Mozart's autograph manuscript for >>>_Magic >>>Flute._) I hope Stuart Walsh took a look when he was >>>in >>>Cracow. There's even some guitar music there, too. >>> >>>*Howard Mayer Brown. >>>Instrumental Music printed before >>>1600: A bibliography. (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, >>>1965). >>> >>>This is a book that belongs on every lutenist's desk. >>>It is out-of-print but an on-demand reprint can be >>>acquired. Perhaps someone can post the information >>>(David?). >>> >>>**Dieter Kirsch and Lenz Meirott, >>>Berliner Lautentabulaturen in Krakau : beschreibender >>>Katalog der handschriftlichen Tabulaturen fur Laute >>>und >>>verwandte Instrumente in der Biblioteka >>>Jagiello=F1ska >>>Krakow aus dem >>>Besitz der ehemaligen Preussischen Staatsbibliothek >>>Berlin. >>>( Mainz ; New York : Schott, c1992), xxxiv, 432 p. : >>>ill., music ; 25 cm. >>>Schriften der Musikhochschule Wurzburg ; Bd. 3. >>> >>>NOTE: Catalog of intabulation incipits for lute, >>>guitar >>>and related plucked instruments from the middle of >>>the >>>16th century (ms. 40154) until the end of the 18th >>>century (ms. 40150) >>> >>>==ajn. >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Peter Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>To: "Lute list" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >>>Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:26 AM >>>Subject: [LUTE] Spinacino >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>My Minkoff facsimile of Spinacino says that the >>>>original unique copy held in >>>>Berlin before the second world war has disappeared, >>>>and that the facsimile >>>>was made from photographs. But I seem to remember >>>>reading somewhere that >>>>the original had been found again. Is this true? >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Peter Martin >>>>Belle Serre >>>>La Caulie >>>>81100 Castres >>>>France >>>>tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 >>>>e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>web: www.silvius.co.uk >>>>http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ >>>> >>>>-- >>>> >>>>To get on or off this list see list information at >>>>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>-- >>Peter Martin >>Belle Serre >>La Caulie >>81100 Castres >>France >>tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 >>e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>web: www.silvius.co.uk >>http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ >> >>-- >> >> >> > > > > > --
