Arthur Ness schrieb: > That would be Elizabeth Stricker (not Strecker), > lutenist in Coethen. > Wife of JSB's precdecessor. I didn';t mean to suggest a > visit to Leipzig. >
I see. Haven´t heard of her before. It is interesting that among the professional lutenists there had been some female lutenists also. There had been one in Stuttgart also: Maria Dorothea St.Pierre, later married Spurny; and also a Mrs. Compernass. > It is interesting that Sciurus's chorales also appear in > that manuscript associated with Rust. I long suspected > they were not by Rust, and that he just used the blank > pages. The cover of the Sciurius "Canzoni devotti" (Mus > Ms 40151) has the initials C. A. A. Pr. D'A. Christina > Agnes Agnera, Princess d'Anhalt-Coethen (hope I have > that name OK). She was later Rust's patron when he was > Kapellmesiter in > Anhalt-Dessau. She studied harpsichord with JSB, but > lute as well with Sciurus. Have you ever considered the > Canzoni as being gathered into three-movement suites? > Breitkopf advertised a > partita by Sciurius (now lost?). The sonatas by Rust > were written for her, I presume. > > Unfortunately I don´t have yet a copy of the big Sciurus-Ms. Anyway that is an interesting thought. But I´m not sure, as in fact Sciurus seemed to have only arranged existing chorale accompaignments. > I thought Sciurius was Cammer-Musikus"? > > Per Kjetil Farstad gives "Vocal-Musicus". As source he mentions "Bach-Jahrbuch, 1905, pp.3 and 34, as quoted in Schulze, "Wer intavolierte Johann Sebastan Bachs Lautenkompositionen?" - Die Musikforschung XIX (1966/I), pp. 37-38. Unfortunately I cannot look it up. Best regards Markus > Regards (I'll be off-line for a week), Arthur. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Markus Lutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > "BAROQUE-LUTE-LIST" <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 6:48 AM > Subject: lutenists and Bach > > > >> 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 > >
