On 30 April 2012 15:19, Roman Turovsky <r.turov...@verizon.net> wrote: > JSB never played trumpet either, but he wrote for it competently. > There is sufficient grounds to assume he would have approached lute > with equal consideration he afforded any other instrument he wrote for, > given his diligence and meticulousness. > The lute is the only instrument he showed no understanding of - > because he never wrote for it.
I just love these statements. Replace trumpet by lute and lute by tenor. and have the statement uttered by a tenor. Or cello & hobo, or .. There is a general consensus among musicians that Bach never really understood their instrument, because however good his music for other instruments, it's always unplayable on their own instrument. Visiting a coffe break of an orchestra rehearsing the Brandenburg concertos is where we hear these most, but even a simple cantata brings out similar opinions as above. ;-) David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
