Thanks Dale for your very interesting comment! Falkengagen being WFB and Hagen being CPEB of lute really changed my view of those two. Especially this Hagen case must be checked! Any idea where to find Hagen facsimilies? And anything by him to 11-courser? I guess not. Or neither for 13-course "non-swan-necker"?
Arto On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:31:51 -0400, "Dale Young" <dyoung5...@wowway.com> wrote: > Arto, > > So beautifully stated. > I have been absorbed in the study of the Augsburg Manuscript for 38 years > and it still fascinates me. Not unlike fractals, Mendelbrot sets, (god rest > > his soul) the more intensely you focus, the more complexity you find. Many > players dismiss Falckenhagen's works as light and simplistic. If they were > to delve deeper into the ethos and pathos of the era, they would find an > incredible wealth of wit and charm along with some stunning technical > advances. He truely was a genius of the Galant Lute. If you doubt his > mastery of the instrument, just try to play through his Prelude sur tutti i > > toni muscali. It is an exhaustive display of the breadth of possibilities > available on the lute. > If there were not Falckenhagen, the Friedmann Bach of the lute, there > would be no "B.J. Hagen", who was the (C.P.) Emanuel Bach (the father of > modern music) of the lute...the junior member of the "Falckenhagen Gang", > The Enfant Terrible of the Empfindsammer Laute. > May the lute and its vast array of music continue to rip our hearts > out and display our better angels to the world. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "wikla" <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> > To: <baroque-l...@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 4:30 PM > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Richness of our repertoire! > > >> Dear baroque lutenists, >> >> isn't is amazing how huge and day by day widening our repertoire is! We >> have the early heroes as the Gaultiers (at least 3 of them), we have >> Dufault and such, we have Mouton and such. Then we have the more or less >> "Austrian", but French oriented noblemen - at least their King, Kaiser, >> was living in Wien - like Losy, Dix and those guys. And then the lonely >> Reusner. Then we have the Polish gang and folks from Prague. We have also >> some guys in Sweden. Etc., etc... >> >> And of course we then have also the late and vanishing baroque names like >> Weiss and even a little bit of Bach-the senior, and then nearing the >> rococo >> Falkenhagen and his gang. And even Haydn happened to make a couple of >> ditties to our instrument... >> >> What really is also interesting, is that we are getting more and more >> music: >> >> 1) After the Soviet rule in the eastern Europe the sources/museums little >> by little seem to open and publish their trasures. I suppose we'll have >> lots of more mss. and stuff, after they'll have time to search, what >> there >> really is in every town museum... The Hapsburger Empire huge... >> >> 2) There _is_ also new music to our instrument, and there will be more... >> Ethnic, "modern", and something else(?). Especially waiting for the new >> ideas, well sounding ideas... >> >> All the best, >> >> Arto >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.862 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3198 - Release Date: 10/15/10 > 02:34:00
