>suite in A-minor, allegedly transcribed for the guitar and >attributed to Weiss, which turns out to be an original guitar >composition for Segovia by Manuel Ponce, composed in 1929. >Apparently it was intended to be attributed to J.S. Bach, but as his >work was too well catalogued, they decided it ascribe it to the much >lesser-known Weiss.
That's why it is known as 'Ponce's illegitimate Weiss!' :-) >The edition I have of the piece is dated 1983 and claims to reveal >this fact for the first time. What surprises me is that either >Segovia or Ponce could have imagined that they got ever have got >away with attributing the piece to Bach however well catalogued, as >it is simply not good enough. Not good enough, as in not as well composed to pass off as Bach or not stylistically close enough? I love that suite, it somehow moves me. It is interesting that it is stylistically much closer to Weiss than Bach, IMHO so they were right to go with Weiss rather than Bach. Jeez, fooling that many people, they could have been politicians. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
