Matanya,
An Austrian, Rodolfo [sic!] Soutscheck [sic!!!] trained the Florentine
soccer team in 1939.
So keep you sticky moneycounting fingers away from Arthur (ever a
gentleman).
RT

From: "Matanya Ophee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Arthur Ness wrote:
>
> >I even know an Irish fantasia by Leonardo what'is name? that has a
> >harmonic progression very similar to the introduction to Beethoven's
> >Second Symphony. Alas it's in that Danish collection of guitar
> >music, and many accidentals are left out. Also in D minor/major. The
> >guitarist/copyist probably used staff notation as a kind of "aide
> >memoire" for what was essentially playing by ear. Even though many
> >wrong notes were written on the page, his fingers probably went to
> >the correct frets.
> >
> >     I found the piece. It's "Recollections of Ireland" by Leonardo
Schultz
> >(Op.41). It's RiBs ms244c in that immense collection of guitar music at
the
> >Royal Library in Copenhagen. You can download it here:

> All that is very good information, but at the same time, it is a
> misrepresentation. This information was first published on line in 1997
here:
>
> http://www.orphee.com/irish.htm
>
> A full discussion of the pro and cons of the fingering issues here
> was also published here:
>
> http://www.orphee.com/sten.HTM
>
> At the time, Arthur Ness expressed a few critical ideas about this on
> line edition in the RMCG new group. Obviously he knew about this
> edition first hand and for him to pretend today that he just found
> out the R&BS availability of the J.G. Holm abschrift, without
> acknowledging the real source of his knowledge on this subject, me,
> is not exactly copacetic.
>
> As for the availability of this music in Copenhagen, of course I know
> all about that. I published the complete catalogue of that
> collection, compiled by its curator Jytte Torpp Larson and edited by
> Peter Danner who needs no introduction here, already in 1989.
>
> One thing always baffled me and that is Arthur's reference to Schulz
> as a "Leonardo". Not the first time, BTW. On the various occasions I
> asked him to back up his reference with some documental evidence, I
> did not get a satisfactory answer. Leonhard Schulz was Austrian, born
> in Vienna, was a protege of Moscheles and in all the available early
> 19th century sources he is always referred to as Leonhard. If Arthur
> knows something I do not, I would certainly appreciate the information.
>
>
> Matanya Ophee
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>
>
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