Thank you, Markus. Actually after I posted the question, I found this
answer on the Weiss page.
Thanks!
ed
At 04:00 PM 1/12/2009 +0100, Markus Lutz wrote:
Dear Edward,
Michel Cardin gives two names in his description:
http://www.slweiss.de/London_unv/ge_3Description.pdf
"Of the more than ninety sonatas known to have been composed by Weiss,
only The Infidel and no 22 were given poetic titles. As suggested by
Douglas Alton Smith, the pirate in question was, in all probability,
Blackbeard (Edward Teach), whose life and spectacular
death in 1718 were subject to intense journalistic coverage during the
lifetime of Weiss. Another candidate would have been René Duguay-Trouin, a
privateer of the same period who
excelled in swashbuckling bravado of the same sort."
Also in the end of the 17th century the first books on pirates appeared:
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, Histoire des Frères de la Côte (1699)
Daniel Defoe, Life, Adventures and Piracies of Captain Singleton (1720)
The first one were translated to German and English very soon. Probably
Defoe would be too late, as "Fameaux Corsaire" probably was written
1720 or in the beginning of 1721.
Best regards
Markus
Anthony Hind schrieb:
I would think the most famous, and also the last French Corsair would
have been Surcouf:$
I found this about him in wikipedia (although I always treat this source
with caution, and I have not counterchecked it)
Anthony
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsair
"Robert Surcouf
Robert Surcouf was the last and best known corsair of Saint-Malo. Born in
Saint-Malo in 1773, his father was a ship owner and his mother the
daughter of a Captain. Ship's boy at 13 and corsair captain at 22 years
old, and then very much against his licence for several years
attacked ships including those of the French East India Company, or
Compagnie Française des Indes. During the French revolution, the
convention government disapproved of lettres de course, so Surcouf
operated at great personal risk as a pirate against British shipping to
India. Surcouf was so successful that he became a popular celebrity in
France. After a brief early retirement Surcouf again operated against
shipping to the Indes. Surcouf became a ship owner himself and died in
Saint-Malo in 1827. There is a statue of him on public display."
Le 10 janv. 09 à 05:35, Edward Martin a écrit :
The sonata in F major by SL Weiss in the London MS has a strange
title. The work is also included in the Dresden MS, but is not entitled Le
Fameux Corsair.
Does anyone have information as to the identity of the "famous pirate" ?
ed
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