On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Monica Hall wrote:
> I think you are being disingenious. What Satoh actually says is
> "This is all my imagination and conjecture, based on the few documents
> concerning De Visee's life".
>
> How is the reader supposed to know what is based on these few documen
I think you are being disingenious. What Satoh actually says is
"This is all my imagination and conjecture, based on the few documents
concerning De Visee's life".
How is the reader supposed to know what is based on these few documents and
what is idle fantasy?
Why suggest that De Visee w
The wire-strung cistre ou guitarre allemande (with lots of variations on
the spelling of 'guitare') was popular in France in the 1770s and 1780s.
It was tuned to (almost) an A mjor chord. This is from the
'opera-comique', Anette et Lubin: C'est la fille à Simonet
https://www.youtube.com/watch
His own words leave no doubt and are far from misleading:
"This is all my imagination and conjecture [...] it was this
imagination that drove me to perform the pieces ..."
In other words, the story in the CD-booklet is about motivation, not
about historical facts."
'nough said
I think it is you who cannot distinguish fact from fiction. The liner notes
to Satoh's CD are a mishmash of known facts and pure fiction and it is far
from
obvious what is all his imagination and conjecture and what is actually
true. Some people have certainly been mislead into thinking that i
Monica wrote:
>>
In the liner notes to his recent CD Toyohiko Satoh claimed that De
Visee was Portuguese and came from a small town called Viseu near
Coimbra. This is pure fiction - there is no evidence at all that this
was so.
<<
Utterly, completely and absolutely OT. But
