جهت استعلام قیمت، خرید و مشاهده نمونه صفحه محصول، لطفاً از طریق پشتیبانی فروشگاه در واتساپ و تلگرام اقدام فرمایید.
by Allen Krantz
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 – 1750) is known to guitarists as the
greatest baroque composer for the lute, yet most are only familiar with
the earlier portion of Weiss’s prolific output found in the British
Library in London. Inspired by a forty-year friendship with the late
Douglas Alton Smith - a major figure in the scholarly study of the
history of the lute - guitarist, composer, and head of the guitar
program at Temple University in Philadelphia, Allen Krantz explored the
Weiss manuscripts found in other European cities, particularly the
Dresden editions which contain the fifteen sonatas that Weiss produced
from the late 1730s to the end of his life.
Transcriptions of
three of those fifteen late sonatas are featured in this book in modern
standard notation along with the original lute tablature as found in the
Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek,
Dresden. While the baroque lute’s tuning makes some works awkward or
impossible on the guitar, the three works presented here—Sonatas No. 35 in D minor, No. 42 in A minor and No. 45 in A Major— are in their original keys which happen to be guitar-friendly.
The
author’s generous and scholarly “Preface” provides thorough historical
and performance notes for the music in this volume. While just three of
Weiss’s 109 multi-movement lute sonatas are represented here, the
importance of this publication cannot be overstated. It contains some of
the greatest music of a masterful lutenist— Weiss once faced-off with
J. S. Bach on keyboards in a counterpoint improvisation contest—now made
accessible to the modern classical guitarist.