> > A question--I've recently run across references to a lutenist > > identified variously as > > > > Francisco Weiber > > Francisco Weber > > Francisco Waber > > > > He was active in London in the 1720s and performed with the > > composer/cellist Giovanni Bononcini as well as the castrato Francesco > > Senesino.
His family name sounds pretty German. If it is, his given name might be rather Franz than Francesco. Might not be the first case of modelled names for the sake of better reputation. To name but one, Carl Maria's father Franz Anton added "von" to his family name Weber. There are quite a few persons, btw, bearing the name Franz in the ancestry of that family of musicians. -- Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
