There were two C. Weisses, father and son flutists born in Muhlhausen. Both travelled in Italy, and later resided in London. The father Carl (1738-1795) published two books of "Six Trios" for flute, violin and bass (London, 1772, 1776). These were extremely popular and later editions appeared in London, Paris, Lyons, Brussels, Leipzig, etc. One of those prints may be the source of the trio Donatella found in manuscript. The father was flutist to George III (!!). He also had some association with the Earle of Abingdon. Remember him? He's the guy who sat in "for Mozart" while Haydn played the lute.<g> We discussed it a few weeks ago.
The son, Carl (or Charles) N. Weiss (1777-1845) was a prolific composer, and left over 100 works for his instrument. Many concertos, studies, potpourris and variations. There's a rather long article on the younger musician in Rockstro, with the pithy comment that CNW "composed a great quantity of not very high-class music, most of which is now forgotten." Is this the trio Donatella referred to? http://img.kb.dk/ma/giedde/gs03-09m.pdf It is the father's Opus 2, No. 1. It was copied by Werner Hans Gieddes (1756-1812), Kapellmeister in Copenhagen. Yes, I am closing down the CompuServe account. --ajn. P.S. Does anyone know what happened to Madame Thibault's "Weiss =E0 Rome" manuscript? It seems NOT to be in the Biblioth=E8que nationale. What does LL455 mean? ----- Original Message ----- From: Douglas Smith To: Tim Crawford ; Arthur Ness Cc: Richard Stone Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:47 PM Subject: Fw: Fw: Fw: [LUTE] A Trio by Weiss Art, Tim, and Richard, Markus knew about the "new" Weiss ensemble, which he found last year. H thinks it's too late to be SLW or JSW. Maybe C. Weiss, whoever that is. Doug from Markus Lutz: Das "neue" Weiss-Ensemblewerk hatte ich bereits im vergangenen Jahr ausfindig gemacht. Es ist aber wohl eher nicht (vorsichtig ausgedruck) ein Werk von J.S. oder S.L. Weiss. Dazu ist es zu modern. Wahrscheinlich passt es eher zu C.Weiss, von dem es einige Werke fur Fl=F6te und Basso gibt. Wer dieser C. Weiss ist, konnte mir aber noch keiner sagen. PS Incidentally, Arthur, is your compuserve address still valid, or should I substitute the verizon? -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.14.25/247 - Release Date: 1/31/2006 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
