I am not going to be drawn into a debate about Madame Robert Sidney-Pratten, the famous guitar virtuosa of the Victorian era. I do not understand why Matanya considers this a proper topic for this lute list.
It seems to have been an obsession with Matanya that her husband's name was Sydney. See the confused remarks at http://www.orphee.com/RMCG/pratten.html Her husband's family's last name was Sidney-Pratten (with and without the hyphen). On September 27, 1854, she married the famed British flutist Robert Sidney-Pratten (1824-1864). (For confirmation, see Rokstro's history of the flute, and for their some 200+ published works, the British Library catalogue. There is even a photograph of Rokstro and Sidney-Pratten standing together. Rockstro credits her for much of the information she provided about her husband after his death.) His mother's maiden name was Sidney, and thereafter the Bristol branch of the Pratten family zseems to have used Sidney-Pratten, even into the 20th century. The only reason why this is worthy of note is because in researching or seeking library materials, one need to look under P for Pratten AND S for Sidney-Pratten. She had a valuable collection that included guitars that had belonged to Regondi, Leonardo Schulz, and Sor, as well as a still missing treatise by Sor in his own handwriting. I have heard from Graham Pratten, a family geneaologist and he's proivided interesting extra information. ----- Original Message ----- From: Matanya Ophee To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 12:41 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Leonardo Sciulzzo At 06:24 AM 8/14/2005, Arthur Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is what I mean about misrepresentation. I did not refer to >OPhee's edition because it is so filled with mistakes. Mistakes >that were first pointed out by Erik Stenstadvolrt in a review in >Classical Guitar magazine. I "scandalously usurped" nothing of >Ophee's. In fact I ignored it deliberately. <<snip>> You don't want to bring this canard once again. Trust me. I have prepared a rather large article on this subject last time we went through this, one which proves beyond any shadow of a possible doubt that when it comes to guitar matters you are an incompetent bumbling and moronic idiot. I have been in a charitable mood and refrained from publishing it, but if you are really interested in learning something, I will. In the meantime, just let me acquaint you with the genealogy of the Pratten family. http://www.prattens.co.uk/FAMILIES/PRATTEN/start.html This was brought to my attention by Graham Pratten, a direct descendant. Matanya Ophee Editions Orphe'e, Inc., 1240 Clubview Blvd. N. Columbus, OH 43235-1226 Phone: 614-846-9517 Fax: 614-846-9794 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orphee.com http://www.livejournal.com/users/matanya/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
