I'd be very interested to know what hard evidence you have for the suggestion that these are two different people. MH
Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Geminiani guitar pieces display pretty much the same set of sensibilities as his violin and cello sonatas. The gallichon "Brescianello" on the other hand has absolutely nothing in common with with the real Brecsianello. Either in scope and and scale, or QUALITY. RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" To: "Arthur Ness" Cc: "Lute Net" Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 4:29 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Brescianello (was) Re: mandora/gallichon music Magnatune have released an album by the Polish ensemble, Nova Casa and they play some Brescianello. The tracks are here: http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/novacasa-leclair/ I've just been listening to the Concerto Terzo - and I've been plonking through the 18 Sonatas for gallichon, on a modern reproduction of a gallichon. Just a quick, amateur reaction - the concerto and the gallichon sonatas do seem to come from different worlds. Maybe I've got two entirely different Brescianellos mixed up! Anyway, the concerto with harpsichord and theorbo continuo, seems wholly 'Baroque' in conception but the sonatas seem much more 'modern'. Or maybe other people would disagree? Or maybe he wrote the gallichon sonatas at the end of his life (a bit like Geminiani writing fro the English guitar). Stuart Arthur Ness wrote: > It seems to me that one needs some very serious > evidence before attempting to claim that Brescianello did not > compose the 18 "sonatas" for gallichon that carry his name. > > Brescianello was chamber violinist to Crown Prince Friedrich > Ludwig of Württemberg, who was a > trained musician and held private > concerts in his quarters twice daily. His > library of music, the largest to survive intact from the 18th > century, > has some 300 pieces for lute, alone. The library was inherited by his > daughter Princess Luise Frederica, an accomplished lutenist and > coloratura, who brought the collection to Rostock (it is now in > the University Library). It demonstrates the > currency of lute and lute music at the Stuttgart court. > > A successor Duke Karl Eugen spent his youth at the court of > Frederick the Great. When he succeeded, he brought Joh Friedrich > Daube (student of Baron, Quantz--he also played flute--and > CPEBach--he was a leading music theorist) with him as his court > lutenist. Daube also played and published music for the mandora. > At the very same time (1744), Karl Eugen promoted Brescianello > from chamber musician to Rathskapellmeister. If > Brescianello didn't play plucked instrument, he surely had a > leading exponent at his side. And Princess Luise might also have > been the intended recipient. > > Why would anyone forge Brescianello's name to music he > did not compose? What would be gained thereby? He was a > versatile composer, writing masses, cantatas, loads of chamber > music, symphonies etc. And was surely > capable of writing those sonatas. > > You'll need to provide more to convince me. WHERE'S THE > EVIDENCE? > > Or as Stuart asked, "What's the story?" > > =AJN (Boston, Mass.) > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Doc Rossi" > > To: "Stuart Walsh" > Cc: "Peedu Timo" ; "Roman Turovsky" > ; > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:15 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: mandora/gallichon music > > >> The usual - he copped it from someone else. I heard it from >> Pietro Prosser, I think. >> >> On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Stuart Walsh wrote: >> >>> Gregory Doc Rossi wrote: >>>> >>>> On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Stuart Walsh wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm probably too late to thank Brescianello for writing it. >>>> >>>> Don't worry, Stuart, lots of people think he probably didn't >>>> write it anyway... >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Good grief! I barely know who he is, let alone that it was >>> probably someone else anyway. >>> >>> What's the story? >>> >>> >>> Stuart >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > --------------------------------- Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! for Good --
