[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Plainte - Weiss

[Roman Turovsky]

There was an exchange with TCrawford apropos.
RT

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From: "howard posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Plainte - Weiss


>> "Plainte de Monsieur Weiss sur la generosite de la grande Noblesse
>> au cap de bonne esperance, en attendant la flotille d'or de leur
>> promesse."
> 
> This has come up on this list before, but my archive-searching skills  
> are not what they could be.  A quickie net search turned up this,  
> from some concert program notes by Michel Cardin,  
> www.edmontonchambermusic.org/0607CardinNotes.html:
> 
>> The Plainte has no title at its heading, though the following  
>> information can be found in French at the end: `A plainte by Mr.  
>> Weis on the generosity of the great Nobility at the cape of good  
>> hope, whilst awaiting their promised flotilla of gold: composed on  
>> January 11, 1719.' These sentiments can be found in the music,  
>> which combines disillusionment with serene meditation in a manner  
>> that is philosophical and without rancour. Weiss was visiting  
>> Vienna with the Saxon court while preparing for the marriage of the  
>> inheritors to be held on the twentieth of March. One wonders which  
>> of the two courts was held in disdain by Weiss for the failure to  
>> provide monetary payment. It is true that the Viennese court had  
>> tried to lure him with an incredibly large salary.
> 
> I hadn't heard the tea explanation before.  Where does it come from?  
> and who are the "grand nobility at the cape of good hope?"
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