Re: Boccherini

2005-02-27 Thread Roman Turovsky
ou will easily find the source. > > You are still not getting it. My original statement in this thread, the one > you are challenging, is that as far as I know, there is no record of a > performance of the quintets prior to 1926 in Germany. Your sole basis for a > challenge to t

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-27 Thread Matanya Ophee
still not getting it. My original statement in this thread, the one you are challenging, is that as far as I know, there is no record of a performance of the quintets prior to 1926 in Germany. Your sole basis for a challenge to this is this letter from from Boccherini to Pleyel. So let me

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-27 Thread Roman Turovsky
>>> That's Benavent, without an e at the end. However, I would be delighted to >>> stand corrected here, if you could supply the full quotation, and the >>> precise source for it. Have no fear, I have the entire available literature >>> on Boccherini

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-26 Thread Matanya Ophee
e entire available literature > > on Boccherini right here in my house. I may have missed something as > > important as that, and if so, I would like to know what. Thanks in advance. > > Matanya Ophee >It is a letter from LB to Pleyel. In it Boccerini also states unequivocally

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-26 Thread Roman Turovsky
ld be delighted to > stand corrected here, if you could supply the full quotation, and the > precise source for it. Have no fear, I have the entire available literature > on Boccherini right here in my house. I may have missed something as > important as that, and if so, I would lik

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-26 Thread Matanya Ophee
ghted to stand corrected here, if you could supply the full quotation, and the precise source for it. Have no fear, I have the entire available literature on Boccherini right here in my house. I may have missed something as important as that, and if so, I would like to know what. Thanks in a

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-26 Thread Roman Turovsky
>> It's probably the type of guitar Boccherini heard when he was in Spain, > > Probably. Double strung guitars were popular in Spain well into the mid > 19th century. Still in his Nuevo Método of 1843, Dionisio Aguado continues > his campaign against double stringing, which

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-09 Thread Matanya Ophee
rst couple of decades of the 19th century, but I do not think you can call these instruments "baroque guitars". The Baroque was well over by the time Boccherini settled in Spain. In any case, there are currently only one source for the Fandango quintet, and that is the de Fossa copy i

Re: Boccherini

2005-02-09 Thread Are Vidar Boye Hansen
Hello! A couple of years ago, I heard Rolf Lislevand perform the Fandango quintet. He used a five course baroque guitar. My question is; was this "authentic" performance? Was the five course guitar still used in Spain at the time when these pieces where written? It sounded great! mvh Are Vidar H

RE: Boccherini

2005-02-08 Thread Matanya Ophee
At 01:57 PM 2/8/2005, Rob MacKillop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Welcome to this list Matanya. > >Is your book on Boccherini/Fossa still available? It is. It should also be available in any serious research library. One thing to remember is that the book was published in 1981, an

RE: Boccherini

2005-02-08 Thread Rob MacKillop
Welcome to this list Matanya. Is your book on Boccherini/Fossa still available? Rob MacKillop -Original Message- From: Matanya Ophee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 February 2005 17:20 To: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: Boccherini James wrote: > It's probably the

Boccherini

2005-02-08 Thread Matanya Ophee
James wrote: > It's probably the type of guitar Boccherini heard when he was in Spain, Probably. Double strung guitars were popular in Spain well into the mid 19th century. Still in his Nuevo Método of 1843, Dionisio Aguado continues his campaign against double stringing, which m