There's a story about it, I don't know if it's real or fictional. An Argentine guitarist transcribed it from Segovia's recording, and then published it through an Argentine publisher (the edition DOES exist): "by S. L. Weiss, transcribed and fingered by Abel Fleury". Acording to the tale, Segovia decided to take it to a court, saying he owned the manuscript. Fleury asked him to show it to the court--which he obviously could not do--, and the case was dismissed. My teacher told me this story. This must have been many years before 1983, Fleury died in 1958.
Hernan Mouro. Conservatorio de Bahia Blanca, Argentina. > >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/ > >
