Thanks, Thomas, for this advice. But I didn’t made a transcription from the C-major sonata for lute and viola. I made the reconstruction of the three sonatas which are transmitted in tablature - but be careful: D-B Rust 53 was changed probably by Wilhelm Rust. Read below:
B) On Friedrich Wilhelm Rust The lute music of Friedrich Wilhelm Rust is preserved in two tablature sources: D-B Rust 53 and PL-Kj 40150 (formerly Berlin, intermediately at the storage site Fürstenstein). Rust 53 is characterized by a completely un-lutenistic style, and there are even unplayable passages in the music. A comparison with the lute parts of the Sonatas I and II, which are contained in PL-Kj 40150, was only possible after the manuscripts stored in Fürstenstein in WW2 had become available again in c. 1987. It then showed that the Sonatas in Rust 53 had undergone far-reaching arrangements introducing additional voices into the music which were written directly into the tablature. In 1988 Andreas Schlegel visited the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek in what was then still East Berlin (GDR) and examined the source in in detail, uncovering the original layer of the tablature. This allowed to see that the versions in PL-Kj 40150 were almost identical with the primary layers in Rust 53. The third Sonata! which only survives in the arrangement in Rust 53 could now be reconstructed in its original form by applying the criteria arrived at while comparing the other compositions with the versions in PL-Kj 40150. The arrangements of the music in Rust 53 are probably connected to the “Rust affair”: Wilhelm Rust, Cantor at St Thomas in Leipzig and grandson of Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, wanted to let his grandfather appear as an predecessor of Beethoven. To that end he published editions of his grandfather’s compositions, which he had arranged and equipped with additional parts in the style of romantic music. As Rust was also the author of an article on lute tablature in an encyclopaedia, he might have felt the need to cover up the the differences between the original tablature and his edition of his grandfather’s sonatas. For a new edition and a recording of the music (see below), the original form of the violin part also had to be reconstructed, as Rust had arranged it too. The new edition consists therefore of music in a reconstructed original version and can thus not be understoot as a critical edition. Earlier editions based on Rust 53 (for example that of Neemann) should not ! be used anymore! Zur Neuausgabe der Sonaten für Laute und obligate Violine/Flöte von Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, in: Gitarre & Laute 6 (1989), pp. 41–47 (On the new edition of Friedrich Wilhelm Rust’s Sonatas for Lute and Violin/Flute obbligato) Friedrich Wilhelm Rust: Drei Sonaten für Laute und obligate Violine/Flöte, Menziken (The Lute Corner) 1998 (Three Sonatas for Lute and Violin/Flute obbligato) CD Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1769) & Bernhard Joachim Hagen (ca. 1720–1787): Sonaten für Laute und obligate Violine (Sonatas for Lute and Violin obbligato), together with Myrtha Indermaur (Violin), Menziken (The Lute Corner) 2006 The C-major sonata for lute & viola is indeed a riddle. Like Alain I’m convinced that it’s not written for a lute in d-minor-tuning because of some places which are not playable. But I worked on this sonata 30 years ago… All the best Andreas > Am 13.02.2019 um 19:52 schrieb Thomas Schall <[email protected]>: > > There is already a very well done adaption for the lute available (by Andi > Schlegel) > https://lutecorner.ch/ > > Bst wishes > Thomas > > Am 13.02.2019 um 18:43 schrieb Alain Veylit: >> eing one octave down from what one might expect. Without that transposition, >> none of the lute's diapasons would be used... Transposing means some tricky >> arpeggios for the thumb > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Andreas Schlegel Eckstr. 6 CH-5737 Menziken Festnetz +41 (0)62 771 47 07 Mobile +41 (0)78 646 87 63 [email protected]
