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scroll down to the bottom picture. That's where they went. But a general (Russian? German?) made the castle into his headquarters. A junior office opened the boxes and realized what they were. Because he feared the general's headquarters might be bombarded, he took the boxes of books a few miles down the road and stored them in another castle. After the war, when the Germans came to get their boxes they were not where they left them. They asked the locals. Oh, they had seen soldiers burning books to keep warm. The orignal scores to Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fifth had served to cook eggs as far as the world knew. The Polish authorities found the boxes and in secret moved them to Cracow as war reparations. Only about 15 years ago did they acknowledge that they had them. Everything survived! Arthur. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Lute list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:23 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Spinacino > Thank you Arthur. What an extraordinary story, and > what a happy ending. > > Howard Mayer Brown's book certainly lives on my desk. > A good quality > reprint is available on demand from iuniverse.com for > the very reasonable > price of $32.95. 560 jam-packed pages. > http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1-58348-525-2 > > Peter > > On 20/04/07, Arthur Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Yes, the photostats made for Gen=E8vieve Thibault, >> are now >> in the Biblioth=E8que nationale. The unique Berlin >> copy of >> Spinacino, long thought destroyed, was acknowledged >> by >> Polish authorities to be in Cracow only about 15 >> years >> ago. >> >> In Brown's bibliography* ALL of the prints marked >> "D:Bds (L)" [for "Germany: Berlin, Deutsche >> Staatsbibliothek (Lost)"] have survived at the >> Jagiellonska Library in Cracow (about 50 16th-century >> titles). When I was in Berlin, I >> was able to consult the pre-war card catalogue in >> then >> East Berlin, and made >> a listing of all the lute prints and manuscripts that >> had been in the former Prussian State Library, >> including >> the >> call-numbers. When finally only about 15 years ago, >> the >> Polish authorities admitted they had the Berlin >> materials, I sent the list to an American guitarist >> studying in Cracow. He confirmed that each and every >> title was extant (except for an Adriannsen print). >> >> At first there was confusion, because many of the >> volumes were Sammelb=E4nde (bound volumes containing >> several often unrelated prints). When the collection >> was catalogued, reputedly by Polish students, only >> the >> first >> item in each Sammelband was noted. So through an >> oversight, many prints >> remained uncatalogued and were thought to have been >> lost. Also all of the manuscripts of lute music have >> survived, and an inventory* by Dieter Kirsch was >> published a few years ago. >> >> So a third of the treasures of surely the most >> important >> collection of music ever assembled were for forty+ >> years >> thought to have been destroyed during World War II. >> (These included Mozart's autograph manuscript for >> _Magic >> Flute._) I hope Stuart Walsh took a look when he was >> in >> Cracow. There's even some guitar music there, too. >> >> *Howard Mayer Brown. >> Instrumental Music printed before >> 1600: A bibliography. (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, >> 1965). >> >> This is a book that belongs on every lutenist's desk. >> It is out-of-print but an on-demand reprint can be >> acquired. Perhaps someone can post the information >> (David?). >> >> **Dieter Kirsch and Lenz Meirott, >> Berliner Lautentabulaturen in Krakau : beschreibender >> Katalog der handschriftlichen Tabulaturen fur Laute >> und >> verwandte Instrumente in der Biblioteka >> Jagiello=F1ska >> Krakow aus dem >> Besitz der ehemaligen Preussischen Staatsbibliothek >> Berlin. >> ( Mainz ; New York : Schott, c1992), xxxiv, 432 p. : >> ill., music ; 25 cm. >> Schriften der Musikhochschule Wurzburg ; Bd. 3. >> >> NOTE: Catalog of intabulation incipits for lute, >> guitar >> and related plucked instruments from the middle of >> the >> 16th century (ms. 40154) until the end of the 18th >> century (ms. 40150) >> >> ==ajn. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Peter Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Lute list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:26 AM >> Subject: [LUTE] Spinacino >> >> >> > My Minkoff facsimile of Spinacino says that the >> > original unique copy held in >> > Berlin before the second world war has disappeared, >> > and that the facsimile >> > was made from photographs. But I seem to remember >> > reading somewhere that >> > the original had been found again. Is this true? >> > >> > -- >> > Peter Martin >> > Belle Serre >> > La Caulie >> > 81100 Castres >> > France >> > tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 >> > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > web: www.silvius.co.uk >> > http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ >> > >> > -- >> > >> > To get on or off this list see list information at >> > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > >> >> > > > -- > Peter Martin > Belle Serre > La Caulie > 81100 Castres > France > tel: 0033 5 63 35 68 46 > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.silvius.co.uk > http://absolute81.blogspot.com/ > > -- >
