> Are there any articles/sites about Bach and his use of the lute in his
> cantatas?
Laurens Dreyfus: Bach's Continuo Group. (Harvard University Press,
1978). It has a chapter 'the Lute'. Summarised it says: no evidence
apart from Trauerode and St. John. Dreyfus forgot about St. Matthew
(!). Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessor, used lutes ('Colochons') and
requested the Mayor of Leipzig to buy him four: two for each church,
as he always had to borrow them for his 'sacred music'.
> Which cantatas do we know that he used the lute in? BWV 198, anything else?
Trauerode (two lutes)
St. John
St. Matthew
That's all.
David
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