Thank you Mathias: this helps me in remembering that the source could perhaps
be found in:
Lionel de La Laurencie, Le Luthiste Jacques Gaultier, (Revue Musicale, January
1904)
I think I had this article but can't find it anymore
Andrea
Il giorno 29/ago/2012, alle ore 18.59, Jorge Torres ha scri
It figures that it would be a Spanish king! =)
Would anyone have a source for this fact?
Jorge
On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Mathias Rösel wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>> I seem to remember having read somewhere a story about a French lutenist
>> (Vieux Gautier perhaps) playing before some king:
> Dear friends,
> I seem to remember having read somewhere a story about a French lutenist
> (Vieux Gautier perhaps) playing before some king: the king praises his
playing but
> adds something like It is a pity he doesnt play the guitar provoking
the
> lutenists anger.
> Does anybody can help m
Similar to Pepys's diary account of hearing Corbetta play guitar: impressed
with the technique despite the guitar being a "bad instrument." r
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