Arthur Ness schrieb: > muster, imo. Didn't lutenists come to Bach in pairs? > Strecker & Sciurius? Weiss & Kropfgans? > > >
Hello Arthur, I know of the source for the visit of Weiss and Kropfgans in 1739. It is in a letter of a nephew of J.S.Bach. Where can we read from the visit of Strecker & Sciurius? BTW - I know Sciurius from his intabulations of chorales, but never heard anything of a lutenist named Strecker. Can you give us more details? For Sciurius there are some details in Per Kjetil Farstad´s diss, German galant lute music in the 18th century: Sciuro (Ciurus, Ciurius, Sciurus, Scyurus), Johann Michael (ca. 1700 - after 1754) was apparently Bach´s lutenist in Cöthen. He was a singer and lutenist. In 1724, Sciuro was employed in Cöthen as "Vocal-Musicus." He resigned from this position in 1754. Ernst Gottlieb Baron visited Cöthen on two occasions. His second visit was in 1737 when he stayed for severel months and probably met Sciuro. His arrangements of chorales are to be found in two Berlin manuscripts now in Krakau: Ms 40150 (some of the chorales of 40151 and 2 Rust-Sonatas) and 40151 (more than 200 chorales). Best Markus To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
