Arthur, many thanks for this! The trio Donatella referred to is exactly the one, that you give. Opus 3 is also in Kopenhagen: http://img.kb.dk/ma/giedde/gs01-25bm.pdf
Do you have any further literature on these Weisses? Are they in any way related to the lutenists Weiss? Best regards Markus Arthur Ness schrieb: > 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 > >
