This is just the kind of nonsense that should be condemned. Are we expected to 
accept apocryphal stories and a pastel drawing as proof of some historical 
truth?. This seems to be common practice in the guitar world. But pianists 
don't have to invent stories, nor do violinists. Just guitarist like Matanya 
Ophee.

The few Schubert works with guitar are well known even to casual music lovers.  
And I already mentioned them..Can't you read,Ophee? Those few works cannot be 
used as evidence that Schubert played the instrument.  As I indicated, if so, 
he would have made those lieder arrangements himself.  

The Bob Spencer edition was published, as Ophee knows perfectly well, by 
Chanterelle, not Tecla.  I really dislike having my words misrepresented.  
Furthermore the Tecla edition by Tom Heck consists of his own arrangements, not 
work based on historical examples. It was condemned by Ophee in an irrational 
diatribe.  

So why don't you take a rest, Matanya, until you can get your facts down 
correctly.  Take an aspirin, and call us back when you're refreshed and your 
brain is in gear.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matanya Ophee 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 6:26 PM
  Subject: [LUTE] Re: OT: Mozart for guitar


  On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:47:31 -0700 Arthur Ness wrote:


  >No one would quarrel with the fact that the guitar enjoyed considerable
  >popularity in Vienna in Beethoven's time.  Schubert used the instrument a few
  >times, including in a birthday cantata for his father.  I know of no
  >documentary evidence that Schubert played guitar.  If he did so, 
  >someone would
  >have made note of that fact.

  Some one did. The name is Umlauff. But even though the Umlauff story 
  may be apocryphal, there is no question of the existence of several 
  Schubert manuscripts of original guitar music. Check your Deutsch.

  >The many Schubert Lieder with guitar accompaniment were usually 
  >arrangements by Diabelli, Mertz, Pfeifer, et al.  One can imagine 
  >that the publishers would rush guitar versions into print to beat 
  >the competition for lucrative salon sales.

  Diaballi is right, Mertz is wrong. What Mertz did was arrange for 
  guitar 6 transcriptions of Schubert lieder made for the piano by 
  Franz Liszt. Strictly instrumental, and not directly from Schubert. 
  What Diabelli did is fully listed in my recent publication of the 
  Thematic catalog of the Guitar Works of Anton Diabelli by Jukka Savioki.

  >I think Brian Jefferey has published some of these 
  >arrangements.  Edited by the
  >late Bob Spencer. Many of you probably know the edition.

  I happen to know the edition very well, because it was prepared in my 
  house at 341 Commonwealth Ave., in Boston during the year and half 
  that Brian Jeffery lived there. Spencer had nothing to do with this. 
  The editor was Thomas Heck and the material has nothing to do with 
  the period arrangements published in Vienna. All the accompaniments 
  are the product of Thomas Heck's invention. As a matter of fact, when 
  he went back to England, Brian left behind all the original paste up 
  boards for all the editions he prepared in my house. I still have 
  them, and for the life of me, I don't know why I haven't dumped them 
  years ago. Oh yes, I know why. It has this magnificent transparency 
  of a pastoral scene in which Schubert is shown playing the guitar. 
  Brian used it on the cover of his book.

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