Arthur Ness (boston) wrote: > A few years ago, one of our internationally touring recitalists did a > complete program devoted to Melchior Newsidler, son (not brother) of Hans. > He will probably have a CD one of these years. He's the type of player who > works on everything before deciding what to record. And there's a lot of > Newsidler for him to absorb. At least 241 pieces by my count, making him > the most prolific lutenist-composer of the 16th century. And surely the > greatest of the central European lutenists. His pieces are not easy, > though.
I have serious doubts regarding the 241. My impression is that he did NOT compose the rather crude "dances" in the 1574 book. Some of them are rather incompetent settings of homophonic songs. Rainer adS
