Here are 227 of them (with an English quadrille tossed in). [1]https://www.scribd.com/doc/253924713/PL-Kj-Mus-Ms-40151-mf That's the */Canzoni divoti tradotti nell'Liuto\* (Mus Ms 40151 ex-Berlin) assembled by Kammermusicus at Coethen, lutenist Johann Michael Sciurius (Eichhorn?) for Christina Agnes Agnera, Princesse d'Anhalt-Coethen (on cover: "C.A.A. P.d'A / 1742"). The chorales are drawn mainly from the Gesangbuch of Freylinghausen (1715). They are organized by key into groups of four or five chorales, forming short sacred suites. Christina also studied harpsichord with J. S. Bach, and later was Countess of Anhalt-Dessau, where her Kapellmeister was Wilhelm Rust (d. 1796). He likely composed four sonatas for lute and violin (one for viola) with her in mind (one of his manuscripts has some of the Sciurius chorales). They were first performed when the court went gondola rowing along the canals of the Garden of Dessau-WAP:litz (gondolas still operate there). His like-named grandson published them in 1896. He was the famous chief editor of the Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe. But he had a special plans for his grandfather's music. He published some of the elder Wilhelm's by then forgotten compositions (including the violin & lute works), altering them to make them appear that his grandfather was a major influence on Beethoven. The "missing link" between Mozart/Haydn and Beethoven, some claimed! The French scholar M. D. Calvocoressi spilled the beans in a famous article, "Der Fall Rust" ("The Rust Case"). Vincent d'Indy in "Le Cas Rust" wrote in support of Rusts, younger and elder. Our Andi Schlegel has set the record straight by restoring the original readings in his recent edition of the sonatas (Menzikin: Lute Corner, 1998). The grandson's printed edition of 1896 is extremely rare. I was unable to find a copy with repeated ILL requests in Germany, and concluded references to it were surely bibliographical ghosts. But home in Boston--there in the BPL was a copy waiting for me. In mint condition, of course--sadly nobody had looked at it in 100 years.<g>
On 03/21/15, howard posner<[2][email protected]> wrote: The Lute Society of America Quarterly published a handful of chorales for 10-course lute a long time ago. Maybe someone else can be more specific. To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html References 1. https://www.scribd.com/doc/253924713/PL-Kj-Mus-Ms-40151-mf 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/
