In addition to the two works including lute in the official catalog, the Attaingnant and Orfeo arrangements, there may be anecdotal evidence for a more elaborate concerto as Joseph Iadone several times described playing a lute concerto to me back in the late 60s, early 70s. Iadone was of course heavily involved in Hindemith's Collegium at Yale.
From the description, it seems more likely that this piece was either an arrangement or a piece written for Hindemith's students, possibly a reworking of the material for one of the other concertos. But that is conjecture; I don't have my notes from that time, his wife might know. There are probably some Hindemith works still out there. I never pursued looking for the piece, because Iadone always commented about how the lute was completely drowned out by the orchestra, although I suppose modern recording techniques could fix that in a jiffy. His wife might know. NB Attaingnant is sometimes spelled dif. in the catalog and elsewhere. dt At 05:00 AM 7/26/2007, you wrote: >Hindemuth had a spurt of writing compositions for all kinds of >instruments, including recorder. (Jeremy Montague (sp?) wrote to Early >Music decades ago about HIP, objecting to the equally anachronistic >playing of Hindemuth's recorder trio on baroque-fingered instruments!) > >I don't have any record of him writing a Lute Concerto nor >Sonata/ina. Null reports are no proof of non-existance, but there's >one datapoint. > >ray > >On 7/26/07, Ed Durbrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:11 PM, David Tayler wrote: >> >> > Why shouldn't someone be able to really >> > study modern lute (including Hindemith's Concerto >> >>Hindemith composed a lute concerto? Do tell more. >> >>Ed Durbrow >>Saitama, Japan >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ >> >> >> >>-- >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
