No, it was written by cousin Louis (Johann Ludwig Bach), who wrote it for comb and toilet paper- but no one could play it as written; after all it was composed on the "Toiletwerke" by a keyboard player. (Now we trespass into Prof. Schickele land.)
Dan On May 1, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > Wasn't it actually written by his son for keyboard? > RT > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tayler" <[email protected]> > To: "lute" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:50 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed > > >> All the gambists I know live on it and think Forqueray 5th suite is >> way harder. >> --- On Mon, 4/30/12, Roman Turovsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Roman Turovsky <[email protected]> >> Subject: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed >> To: "David van Ooijen" <[email protected]>, "lute net" >> <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 11:51 AM >> All the gambists I know (a goodly #) dread playing that aria. >> RT >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David van Ooijen" <[1][email protected]> >> To: "lute net" <[2][email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 2:46 PM >> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Bach's Lute Suites: This Moth is Blessed >> > On 30 April 2012 20:34, Roman Turovsky <[3][email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> JSB didn't play gamba either as evidenced by his reassignment of >> nicely >> >> playable lute part in the MatthaeusPassion to an impossible one for >> gamba >> >> in >> >> the 2nd version. >> >> Any gambist would tell you that that "gamba" part is pure hell. >> > >> > >> > Another blanket statement I beg to differ with, as my gamba friend >> are >> > generally happy with the Suesses Kreuz aria and find it to work well >> > on their instruments, however much I try to persuade them to give it >> > back to me. ;-) But then again, some of these gambis must have played >> > the piece hundreds of times over the years. It's remarkable, btw, how >> > much the character of the aria changes when the obligato part is >> > played on a lute. Easier, lighter, 'Suesser' as opposed to heavy, >> hard >> > and 'Kreuzig'. I keep telling conductors, but playing Bach passions >> is >> > another of those established habits enshrined in today's Early Music >> > Esperanto. >> > >> > David - back to St. John >> > >> > >> > -- >> > ******************************* >> > David van Ooijen >> > [4][email protected] >> > www.davidvanooijen.nl >> > ******************************* >> > >> > >> > >> > To get on or off this list see list information at >> > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > >> -- >> References >> 1. file://localhost/mc/compose?to%c3%[email protected] >> 2. file://localhost/mc/[email protected] >> 3. file://localhost/mc/[email protected] >> 4. file://localhost/mc/compose?to%c3%[email protected] >> 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > >
