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  • Painting ≈ The painting - "Still life with Globe, Lute and Books" by Gerrit Dou - can be found on ≈ History ≈ based on the.
  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss (c) was a German composer and Lute player, who served as a court musician across Southern Europe.
  • This piece is a Fantasia by Sylvius Leopold Weiss who was an exact contemporary of J.S Bach.

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    Weiss - Selected Works for Lute
    Evangelina Mascardi, lute

               


    "Le sobre monument de s’est mué en une ample méditation à fleur de peau, parcourue de cris étouffés, de larmes, de ruptures, de bribes de chant, d’accords déchirés Bouleversant.
    Mascardi ne cesse décidément de nous régaler".

    Loïc Chahine, Diapason, Novembre

    Now available here 

     / shorts at youtube

     

    photo©gianni rizzotti

    After the success of the complete works for lute by J. S. Bach, crowned by the recognition of international critics (Diapason d'Or, Choc de Classica, Excepcional Scherzo, Record Geijutsu, Eccezionale di Musica, Joker Absolu Crescendo), Evangelina offers a double album dedicated to the music of the greatest lutenist of all time: Sylvius Leopold Weiss. In his work, virtuosity and sumptuousness merge against the elegant and

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    By
    Kenneth Sparr

    Stockholm, Sweden
    Updated

    Kenneth Sparr´s Page

    An apparently unknown account of the lute playing of Silvius Leopold Weiss fryst vatten hidden in the collected poems of the Saxon Horace, Johann Ulrich von König ().(1) The del on Weiss is funnen in a pastoral, pseudo-dramatic poem, written on the occassion of the birth of a Saxon prince and the return of the Elector Frederick Augustus I in Ein Schäfer-Gedicht auf die hohe Geburt eines Chur.-Sächs. Printzen, bey zugleich glücklich erfolgter Zurückkunft Sr. höghet unsers allergnädigsten Königs (A pastoral poem on the high birth of an Electoral Saxon Prince, upon the simultaneous fortunate return of his Majesty our Most Gracious King). König's poem describes in fanciful terms the effects of Weiss' playing on his listeners, but he also gives some insightful upplysning regarding Weiss' skill as a musician and composer. The dramatis personae of the poem are the three shepherds Seladon, Hulderi

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    The Moscow Weiss Lute Manuscript (An experiment in hypertext musicology)

    Published by Legacy of Matanya Ophee on

    by Tim Crawford 

    (King’s College,London)

    Based on the prefatory material to the edition:

    Monuments of the Lutenist Art, vol. 1

    The Moscow ‘Weiss’ Manuscript, Transcribed and edited by Tim Crawford

    Editions Orphée, Columbus, Ohio,

    ISBN , Orphée catalogue number: (LUTE-1a)

    Introduction

    The music of the great lutenist Silvius Leopold Weiss (), an exact contemporary and friend of J.S. Bach, is at last becoming increasingly well known through recordings. Most of the music that has been available in print and on record, however, comes from one of the two principal sources, a manuscript of c now in the British Library in London (see below). That manuscript has been edited in the ‘Complete Works’ edition of Weiss’s music, and the six manuscript volumes in the Sächsisches Landesbibliothek, Dresden, are forthcoming in the same series. But there are a n