There's a collection, now in Munich (Ms Mus 1522), dating from c 1660 and believed to have belonged to 'Adelaide di Savoya Elletrice di Bavaria' (written on the back page). It contains pieces in mixed Italian tablature and in alfabeto. You can download a digitised copy from the Bavarian State Library site.
There are also the various MSs containing pieces attributed to Losy (1650-1721), In particular: Prague National & University Library II Kk 77 'Pieces Composees par le Comte Logis' Prague National Museum XLb 209 Moravian Museum, Brno D 189 (though probably for mandora) Whether or not these pieces were composed by Losy himself for the guitar or arrangements (of lost lute works) by a contemporary hand is not, I think, convincingly established either way. Also the guitar works by Nathanael Diesel preseved in the large collection in Copenhagen (Kgl Sam 377, Ny Kgl Sam 110) who worked in the Danish Court from 1736 to 1744 who is thought to have been of German extraction (see JLSA 1975). But these seem to have been concieved for an instrument with bourdons on the basses (perhaps even on the outside ie thumb side) and are stylistically closer to mandora works of the period - indeed that's the instrument I use the play 'em. MH . --- On Mon, 16/5/11, howard posner <[email protected]> wrote: From: howard posner <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Baroque Guitar in Germany? To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 15:18 Is anyone aware of evidence, other than Kremberg's 1689 book, for the guitar in German-speaking lands before about 1750? To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
