I love this discussion and I hope, the big master can hear it! I fear he could say:"Do You really suppose I think of Your wretched lutes when the spirit gets hold of me?" Replace lute by violin, than this is what half a century later Beethoven said to the violinist Schuppanzigh when he complained about the "unplayability" of a passage B. had written for him in a quartet. ./. I confess, I like all parts of all "so called" "lute suites" of Bach. Some of them belong to his absolute masterworks. (Short time ago someone in the list recommended a great scientific analaysis of importance of the fuges in BWV 997 and 998, but unfortunately i have forgotten the source (Please help!) Yours Andreas of Berlin (excuse my english please) --
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