Opps! Yes, in Vienna it might well have been Daube. On lute? Or on mandora? He published songs with mandora. And he was quite a well trained musician. Teachers probably were Baron (lute), Quantz (flute) and CPEBach (composition). He published a periodical for musical dilettantes. It had articles on composition. Harmony and lots of counterpoint (fugue, canon, duple and triple counterpoint). That would have appealed to Baron van Swieten, the Bachophile who hired Mozart. The orchestra for those Handel concerts was 86 players. That's mighty big for those days.
ajn. ----- Original Message ----- From: Are Vidar Boye Hansen To: Arthur Ness Cc: Are Vidar Boye Hansen ; Lute Net Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:56 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mozart? Ops, I was thinking about who performed in the Mozart version. Could that have been Straube? Of course, it would be interesting to know who performed in the original version as well! And what kind of lutes where used? Archlute for H=E4ndel and baroque lute for Mozart? It would be extremly interesting to compare the two versions! mvh Are > You mean Straube. Daube was in Vienna. Did he know Mozart? He is said to have died with his "old lute" at his side (1797?). > > There was another lutenist named Senal who was active at that time in London. Also Weiss. Guitars, Pantaleone, Mandolin, and Colascione (the two-string kind) were also heard on the London stage. > > By the way, the (lost???) Mozart/Abingdon anon. lutenist/Haydn portrait was done by John Francis Rigaud. He is also know for a famous portrait of John Christian Bach (aka "The Milan Bach.") > > ajn. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Are Vidar Boye Hansen > To: LGS-Europe > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 5:14 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mozart? > > > Hi all! > > > >> > > Is it true that Mozart added a short cadenza for solo lute in his version > > of the Caecilia ode? > > << > > > > I don't know what is H=E4ndel and what is Mozart in the lute part (aria no 5: > > Der Fl=F6te Klageton, b-minor), but there is some sort of cadenza for lute and > > flute at the end. Most of the lute part is straight forward continuo playing, > > with passages of broken chords (oncomftably low for an archlute) during the > > words 'die sanfte Laute'. > > At least the text is translated, as H=E4ndel's version of the aria is called > The Soft Complainig Flute. I wonder who played the lute in the performance > of this work. Maybe Kohaut or Daube? > > > mvh > Are Vidar Hansen > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- --
