Dear Kenneth, thank you for your mail - I didn't know that my article would be of interest to anyone outside Germany although I know that the guitar lute and its relatives were not confined to the German spoken countries.
I have not mentioned Scholander because I am unsure about the extent to which he influenced the singers of "lute songs" and the lute players in the Germany of his time and because he seems to have had no contact to the Scherrer-circle. In changing the Swedish lute into a single string instrument he may be seen as following a process which started in the early nineteenth century. Where did you find Bacher`s Fibel? Thank you for drawing our attention to it. I will try to find a copy. Best wishes, Joachim "Kenneth Sparr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >I read with interest Joachim Luedtke's very informative article, Zwischen >Ueberbrettl und Wanderfahrt Aspekte zur Geschichte der Laute und ihrer Musik >in Deutschlanbd von 1900 bis 1926, in the latest issue of Die Laute, >Jahrbuch der Deutsche Lautengesellschaft, Nr. VI. Luedtke does not have >pretentions to have written the definitive history of this period, but there >are a few omissions that maybe should be mentioned. > >Luedtke does not with a single word mention the importance of the Swedish >singer and luteplayer Sven Scholander (1860-1936) (nor his lutebuilder >Alfred Brock) in the development of the extremely popular guitar-lute >tradition in Germany and other countries in Europe. As a matter of fact Sven >Scholander had already in the 1880s modified the Swedish lute (see my >webpage at http://www.tabulatura.com/SWELUTE1.htm for a background) into a >single string lute in guitar tuning with 6 bass strings. Scholander appeared >in concerts all over northern Europe in the last decade of the 19th century >singing and playing his lute with great success. During a visit of Kaiser >Wilhelm in 1895 in Sweden he played and sang for him and already in 1896 he >gave concerts in Berlin and Hannover, in 1897 in Vienna. These concerts were >to be followed with others in Germany: in 1904 and 1905 in Berlin and after >the war he made several concert tours in Germany which were extremely >successful. > >In 1910-1912 Breikopf & Härtel published his Scholander-Programme / Hundert >Lieder / für eine Sing-stimme / mit Begleitung von / Laute (Guitarre) oder >Klavier in 10 volumes. > >In my opinion Scholander's importance in the lute movement in Germany should >not be underestimated. > >Luedtke could also have mentioned Josef Bacher's Lehrwerk fûr die >doppelchörige Laute. 1. Band: Lautenfibel. Bärenreiter 1236. Kassel, which >probably was published in 1938 or before that. My copy of this little volume >(which does not seem to have been followed by other volumes) comes from the >Handbibliothek des Hermann Moeck Verlages and has a manuscript signature and >the date 1938, which means that it was published before Giesbert's more >important Schule fuer die Barocklaute which was published in 1939/1940. >Bacher's work was based on historical methods and he is using the French >lute tablature system. > >Joachim Luedtke's article hopefully will inspire more research into this >interesting period which unfortunately also meant that many very old lutes >were changed and partly destroyed to fit this new movement. > >Best wishes > >Kenneth Sparr >Stromstigen 25 >S-149 51 Nynashamn >SWEDEN > >Telephone: +46-852015561 >www.tabulatura.com >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- Dr. Joachim Luedtke Frühlingsstraße 9a D - 93164 Laaber Tlf.: ++49 / +9498 / 905 188 Mobil: 0172 / 275 49 48 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
