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New Lute facsimile
Lautenmusik
aus
Schloß
Rohrau
Lute
Music
from
Rohrau Castle
Werke von Silvius Leopold Weiss und
anderen. Zwei Manuskripte für Barocklaute aus der Graf
Harrach’schen Familiensammlung. Als Faksimile herausgegeben und
kommentiert von Michael Freimuth, Frank Legl und Markus Lutz.
Works
of
Silvius
Leopold Weiss and others. Two manuscripts for baroque lute
from the collection of Count Harrach. Facsimile edited and commented by
Michael Freimuth, Frank Legl and Markus Lutz.
Frankfurt,
2010.
Format:
4°, oblong, xlviii, 268 pp.
$225
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sample
facsimile
(halftone)
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The
world-famous
art
collection of the Harrach family is preserved in their
castle at Rohrau near Vienna. In 2004 the curator of the collection,
count Arco-Zinneberg, came across 7 manuscripts (2 of them lute
tablatures) preserved together with the art collection. Christoph
Angerer and Michael Freimuth were called to evaluate the mss and soon
realized the value of the find, particularly of the lute tablatures.
The first volume mostly contains works by Sylvius Leopold Weiss, among
them 11 suites of several movements that have been previously unknown,
1 complete lute duet in 4 movements, and the suite in A that has so far
survived as solo music, but here it is in the form of a trio for
violin, lute and bass.
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index of pieces with
musical incipits
The
title
of
the second volume, "Lautenmusik von unbekannten Componisten"
(lute music by unknown composers) was obviously caused by the scribe’s
ignorance of the music, since already as many as 4 suites could be
ascribed to Weiss by concordances. Other suites in the collection are
composed in a style that is quite similar to Weiss’ style as well.
Quite unexpectedly, the volume also contains 4 pieces for lute in
renaissance tuning, notated in Italian tablature. The present volumes,
comprising 200 pages, bridge a gap in the group of sources of lute
music by Weiss, complementing other Weiss manuscripts in London and
Dresden, as they mainly contain pieces of his early creative period.
The 2 manuscripts in Rohrau contain a total number of 167 movements for
the lute, organized in 26 suite-like sequences. Without doubt, these
volumes are of the highest significance both for active lute players
and for scholars. Handsome red linen boards with gold lettering.
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distributed
by:
OMI - Old Manuscripts & Incunabula PO
Box 6019 FDR Station, New York NY 10150 tel 212/ 758-1946 • fax 212/
593-6186 • http://www.omifacsimiles.com • immels@earthlink.net
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