Arto,
So beautifully stated.
I have been absorbed in the study of the Augsburg Manuscript for 38 years
and it still fascinates me. Not unlike fractals, Mendelbrot sets, (god rest
his soul) the more intensely you focus, the more complexity you find. Many
players dismiss Falckenhagen's works as light and simplistic. If they were
to delve deeper into the ethos and pathos of the era, they would find an
incredible wealth of wit and charm along with some stunning technical
advances. He truely was a genius of the Galant Lute. If you doubt his
mastery of the instrument, just try to play through his Prelude sur tutti i
toni muscali. It is an exhaustive display of the breadth of possibilities
available on the lute.
If there were not Falckenhagen, the Friedmann Bach of the lute, there
would be no "B.J. Hagen", who was the (C.P.) Emanuel Bach (the father of
modern music) of the lute...the junior member of the "Falckenhagen Gang",
The Enfant Terrible of the Empfindsammer Laute.
May the lute and its vast array of music continue to rip our hearts
out and display our better angels to the world.
----- Original Message -----
From: "wikla" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 4:30 PM
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Richness of our repertoire!
Dear baroque lutenists,
isn't is amazing how huge and day by day widening our repertoire is! We
have the early heroes as the Gaultiers (at least 3 of them), we have
Dufault and such, we have Mouton and such. Then we have the more or less
"Austrian", but French oriented noblemen - at least their King, Kaiser,
was living in Wien - like Losy, Dix and those guys. And then the lonely
Reusner. Then we have the Polish gang and folks from Prague. We have also
some guys in Sweden. Etc., etc...
And of course we then have also the late and vanishing baroque names like
Weiss and even a little bit of Bach-the senior, and then nearing the
rococo
Falkenhagen and his gang. And even Haydn happened to make a couple of
ditties to our instrument...
What really is also interesting, is that we are getting more and more
music:
1) After the Soviet rule in the eastern Europe the sources/museums little
by little seem to open and publish their trasures. I suppose we'll have
lots of more mss. and stuff, after they'll have time to search, what there
really is in every town museum... The Hapsburger Empire huge...
2) There _is_ also new music to our instrument, and there will be more...
Ethnic, "modern", and something else(?). Especially waiting for the new
ideas, well sounding ideas...
All the best,
Arto
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