I went along to that Sotheby's auction with a friend, with the fanciful
intention of bidding for the Libro Terzo. It was estimated at around
GBP -L-3 - 3,500 and we thought that we might be able to afford it at
that sort of price. Well ... before I even had time to raise my
paddle, the telephone bidding shot upwards and finished at around
-L-9,500 which was way beyond our budget. Still a modest price though
for such an important and unique book. If I'm honest, the book is far
better placed in Yale's music library than on my shelves, so I'm glad
it went where it did. I visited New Haven later that year to play a
concert, and was able to browse through the book, along with a bunch of
other lute and wider musical treasures (Debussy's working manuscript
for Pelleas et Melisande, Villa-Lobos manuscript of the guitar studies,
etc) - what an amazing collection.
Peter
On 30 May 2012 23:01, sterling price <[1]spiffys84...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Arthur--any idea what Yale paid for this book? Just wondering....
--Sterling
From: A. J. Ness <[2]arthurjn...@verizon.net>
To: hera caius <[3]caiush2...@yahoo.com>; Lute List
<[4]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:41 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: A special request (Kapsberger)
Dear Caius,
For Kapsberger's third book of chitarone music, there is only one
copy
known, and it lacks the pages you ask about. That
copy was in the magnificent Berlin library of Werner Wolffheim which
went on
the auction block in 193?. A private individual in Bologna acquired
that
copy. For years the book was known only from its listing in the
auction catalogue.
In 2001 several lute tablatures were announced for auction by
Sotheby's.
Yale wanted a German tablature for their rare book collection (they
had
no
examples of German tablature), and so gathered up monies to purchase
a
Heckel tablature which was in the sale. Yale got lucky. The price
on
the
Heckel was driven beyond their budget. (It's the most unexciting
book
of
lute music ever<g>; and ten copies are known to exist.) So they
reconnoitered and decided on the Kapsberger
third chitarone book. Little did they know that it was the copy from
Bologna, the only one known to exist. What a coup! For all of us,
because
its purchase by Yale finally made that Kapsberger volume available
to
everyone.
And our Diego Cantalupi had his own coup. He made the first
recording
of
its music (a fine one, too!). AND the Yale library permitted him to
include a facsimile of the
entire print in his CD.
[5]http://www.mvcremona.it/CDKapsbergeEngl.html
This just tends to illustrate how ephemeral is the lute repertory.
One
copy of a
book that was surely issued in several hundred copies. From a court
case, we know Dowland's third book of ayres was printed in 1250
copies. Less than a dozen survive. u.s.w.
Arthur.
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<[1][6]caiush2...@yahoo.com>
To: <[2][7]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:44 AM
Subject: [LUTE] A special request
> Hello,
> I have played some of the music from the Kapsberger third book for
> theorbo. This book I received from somebody but it some of the
pages
> are missing...so it starts at page 9 (in the original numbering.
It
> would be so perfect if somebody can provide me the pages 1 to 8 (I
> guess there are two toccatas) in pdf or jpg. Thanks in advance.
> Caius Hera
>
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