Monica wrote: >> In the liner notes to his recent CD Toyohiko Satoh claimed that De Visee was Portuguese and came from a small town called Viseu near Coimbra. This is pure fiction - there is no evidence at all that this was so. << Utterly, completely and absolutely OT. But as Monica still appears to have trouble distinguishing fact from fiction in her reading, I think it's nice to help her by quoting myself from an earlier e-mail about this same utterly, completely and absolutely OT topic: "Toyohiko is speculating on how De Visee's retirement from public life might have influenced his compositions for Baroque lute, and links that to his own position in life and to his interpretations of De Visee's music. I quote from the liner notes of the CD: "This is all my imagination and conjecture [...] it was this imagination that drove me to perform the pieces ..." In other words, the story in the CD-booklet is about motivation, not about historical facts." I could also have quoted Gerschwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So". David - back to lurking-mode
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