Hi all.
At the risk of opening a can of worms, does anyone have any theories of why there are not more (any) works by J.S. for what was, arguably, the finest solo instrument of his day? I can think of a few possible reasons: a. He wasn't paid to write for lute; b. Being an organ/keys/violin guy, he was unfamiliar with lute idiom and thought it better to stick to his knitting rather than have someone like SLW poo-poo him; c. Related to (b), there was no point when SLW was already doing what he was doing; d. He did write for the lute, it just got lost/burned/eaten by the family dog/etc.; e. Anything he wanted to say on the lute he could express on a keyboard so there was simply no need for him to go there. Or is this simply conjecture and best left to the existing "lute suites" to have the final word? Wonderingly .. mark. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
