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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf
of Mark Probert <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2019 2:41:44 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Bach and the lute
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.
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