Hi Christopher: >From Lundbergs book the information I found is the the Tiffenbrucker(s) between 1570 and 1610. What you are probably looking at is the material used during a later conversion or repair. The manuscript you mention was from a period after Tiffenbrucker's work history by some fifty years or so.
Vance Wood ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Challen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:15 AM Subject: [LUTE] Magnus Tieffenbrucker > Hello all aficionados of the lute, this is my first posting and so hope it reaches you ok. > > Could anybody tell me Magnus Tieffenbrucker's dates please, or any other details about him. I know he worked in Venice and I've seen instruments by him dating from the late 16th to early 17th centuries, but never any evidence of his birth and death dates. > > The reason I ask is because I'm working towards the publication of twenty-seven fragments of a Venetian music manuscript, an Esther Oratorio written between 1680 & 1710, which I found glued inside the back of one of his lutes in order to stabilise numerous openings in the ribs. Knowing Tieffenbruker's dates, or at least when he was active, would be a great help. > > The realisation of the manuscript (in which Kenneth Mobbs (Mobbs Keyboard Collection http://www.mobbsearlykeyboard.co.uk/) has done the lion's share of the work) has so far yielded several minutes of very fine music: two ritornellos for seven instruments and two arias (one for castrati) with basso continuo, the recitatives have yet to be realised. > > I can't help but notice the underlying interest of the lute group leans heavily towards the therapeutic value of music, I'd like to say that working towards the publication of this music manuscript often leaves me feeling stressed. > > Many thanks > > Chris (Challen) > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
