Valentin Bakfark's world w/ Jacob Heringman on BBC radio 3 this coming
Sunday!
[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005sl4
G.
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1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005sl4
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hi all,
i am looking for a facsimile of bakfarks ultimi mei sospiri.
thanks for help
wolfgang w.
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sorry,
Here is a short and direct mentioning of Bakfark:
O Bekwarku
[...]
(I try to translate:)
To Bakfark
is in fact : About Bakfark
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Dear all,
With the assistance of my lovely wife I had a look at some more
Kochanowski (16th century Polish poet), whoe really must have loved the
lute, because it appears in many of his poems.
Some time ago we read about a funny proverb concerning Bakfark, lute,
and whether size does matter
Tadeusz Czechak [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
1.It is still a proverb in Poland , but not commonly used , as now only a
few poeple know who was Bakfark . You may hear it rather from the poeple
involved with literature , poetry, culture etc.
Yes, indeed. I asked a Polish friend of mine. She
Many thanks to all who responded to my question.
Since the time I posted my query about early quotes on Bakfark I made a trip to Poland
(Warsaw and Krakow) this past weekend and even performed a lute recital at the Muzeum
Narodowe w Warszawa and enjoyed including Bakfark in the program. I left
Dear Gabor , the answers are as follows
1.It is still a proverb in Poland , but not commonly used , as now only a
few poeple know who was Bakfark . You may hear it rather from the poeple
involved with literature , poetry, culture etc.
2.It has been a proverb since the Kochanowski put it into his
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Subject: Bakfark
There is a quote that goes something like:
nobody should play the lute after Bakfark
Can someone tell me 1) the source of this quote 2) the interpretation:
does it mean that that Bakfark had no equal
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This is a methaphore , commonly used in apparent , but mistaken meaning .
Jan Kochanowski , Polish poet , 16th cent in his epigram told the
following
story
A guy asked very much
I fully agree - Bakfark is a real adventure! Yes, most of his stuff is very
difficult to play, but he never writes real impossible things, it's always
very musical and logical, and well set for the lute, no 6th finger needed at
least (like sometimes V. Galilei). In his time he was a very famous
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This is a methaphore , commonly used in apparent , but mistaken meaning .
Jan Kochanowski , Polish poet , 16th cent in his epigram told the
following
story
A guy asked very much
Dear Kenneth,
I have had a quick butcher's at the German translation of István
Homolya, _Valentin Bakfark_ (Budapest: Zenemükiadó, 1982), p. 57,
and although I cannot find the exact reference you are after, I
think I might be close to it.
After Bakfark died, some people erected an epitaph at his
There is a quote that goes something like:
nobody should play the lute after Bakfark
Can someone tell me 1) the source of this quote 2) the interpretation: does it mean
that that Bakfark had no equal and that his skill couldn't be matched by anyone else?
or does it mean that no one could
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There is a quote that goes something like:
nobody should play the lute after Bakfark
Obviously this means that Bakfark had abnormally oily
or smelly hands. (Don't use that lute - Bakfark just
played it.) We just need to decide whether it was
because
cleanliness.
As far as his music is concerned it is particularly difficult with some very
painful bar chords.
Vance Wood.
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Haven't heard this of Bakfark, but on a famous post-mortem-engraving of Weiss the
inscription reads Es soll nur Sylvius die Laute spielen (Sylvius alone shall play the
lute), a quote from a poem.
Also, I've somewhere read a description of Count Logy's final hour, when Logy ordered
all of his
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