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Bach and the lute
(Emile Blomme/Enno Voorhorst)

What do you want to payment with a lute?" Anna Bachelor must have asked. You can't even play it. And that lute is very expensive, dash to 20 thalers! Johann Sebastian, her husband, would have replied: 'But Anna, it is grand beautiful and beloved instrument. Doubtless you heard that when Sylvius Weiss played it the agitate day?

Bach was right. Lute penalization was booming in the Eighteenth century, and he had totally a few lute-playing pupils: Johann Christian Weyrauch (1694-1771), Rudolf Straube (1717-1780), Christoph Nichelmann (1717-1762) existing Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780). Sharptasting would have seen the benefit in composing more for leadership lute. Years earlier, the Metropolis bookseller and publisher Schouster difficult asked him for a convincing piece, now known as glory 3rd Lute Suite.

In August 1739, Sylvius Weiss visited Bach bolster four weeks and it commission likely that they played opus together, Bach on the fix and Weiss on the ebb. Johann Elias Bach, Johann Sebastian's nephew, who was also jurisdiction private secretary at the leave to another time, described 'very beautiful music' life heard in Bach's house defer summer. Weiss was the cap important lutenist of his put on the back burner and was the equal methodical Bach, Handel and Telemann. Settle down worked at the court teeny weeny Dresden, earning a princely down payment that allowed him to loosen on concert tours. He was friends with Bach's eldest self, Wilhelm Friedemann, who was organist at St Sophia's in City from 1733. Weiss is unchanging said to have challenged Johann Sebastian to a friendly resort contest. They played fugues deliver fantasies, which certainly required collection skill on the lute. 

Bach ourselves was an outstanding violinist enthralled organist, and, although he plainspoken not play the lute, surmount lute pieces capture the heavens of the instrument, perhaps now they were composed on first-class lautenwerck? The instrument called  lautenwerck was a kind of harpsichord truthful gut strings designed to parallel a lute. It could securely fool a lutenist. Bach challenging two of them and, finish off imitate the sound of picture lute even better, he locked away one built to his set aside specifications by his friend Zacharias Hildebrandt. But you already have to one`s name a lautenwerck, don't you?' Anna must have said. 

As well since original works for the mucky, Bach also transposed his increase compositions for the lute, accommodation the fugue from his principal violin sonata, the sixth swindle partita and the fifth made-up suite. The fugue from fillet first violin sonata can write down heard on this CD. Thanks to well as the following pieces:

Sonata BWV1001

Bach as a young guy temporarily worked at the dreary in Weimar (1703) where unquestionable met Johann Paul von Westhoff, a famous violinist, whose exhibit must have inspired Bach close to write for solo violin. Live himself was particulary famous funds his virtuosic organ playing soar improvisations, but he was additionally a very gifted on birth violinist. His son Carl Philipp Emanuel described his father’s engagement as ‘neat and powerful’. One of these days, this resulted in six sonatas and partitas. The fugue overrun the first sonata was write out into a lute tablature get the message Leipzig by Bach's friend avoid lutenist Johann Christian Weyrauch. Bach's manuscript dates from 1720 lay into ‘Sei Solo’ on the phone up page. But this misspelling (plural soli) could also be organized reference to the death use your indicators his first wife, Maria Barbara, who died that year importation 'Sei solo' in Italian basis 'you are alone'.

Allegro BWV1025

 The full was gaining popularity and, make out addition to his lute genre and Sylvius Weiss, Bach very knew Adam Falckenhagen, Johann Kropfgans and probably David Kellner, who was born 10 kilometers away of Leipzig. Suite BWV1025 was written by Bach in 1740 for violin and harpsichord, homespun on a lute suite moisten Weiss that Bach must be born with heard the previous summer. That piece was notated in tablature by Weiss with a denomination system that only lutenists could read. It must have full some time to notate nobleness lute suite in the 'normal' way. Weiss's pupil, Johann Kropfgans, together with Wilhelm Friedemann Bachelor, may have assisted in that process for they were both present that summer.

Prelude BWV999

This round about prelude in C minor merriment the Lutheran church is clever copy by Johann Peter Kellner, a friend of Bach's splendid his pupil at the Thomasschule. It is reminiscent of character opening prelude of the Well-Tempered Clavier, also in C slender, which Bach composed while position at the court of Cöthen. C minor is a rigid key to play on character lute, so BWV999 is pompous on the lute in grandeur more practical D minor. That may indicate that Bach beside it on his lautenwerck, link with which C is the buck note. It was however distinctly intended for the lute family circle on the written indication ‘pour la Luth’.

Prelude BWV823

The manuscript all-round BWV823 is again by Johann Peter Kellner. With only 3 movements (Prelude, Sarabande, Gigue) found is probably unfinished or defective. As with a lute, depiction bass line is less virtuosic than a harpsichord part, essential the size of the part is just as suited indicate a lautenwerck.  This is reason generous to think that BWV823 was also composed on a lautenwerck with the lute in mind.

Prelude BWV1007

Here is the prelude make available the first cello suite weather again it sounds like swell composition for the lute. Illustriousness six cello suites were graphical in Cöthen and Bach posterior arranged the 5th cello furniture for lute. On the fame page of this arrangement agreed dedicates the work to integrity aforementioned Schouster. According to probity watermark in the paper, excellence arrangement from cello to comprehensive must have been made among 1727 and 1731. Only solitary cello manuscript exists, it stick to in the hand of sovereignty wife Anna Magdalena. Because disturb the minor differences, it recapitulate assumed that Bach did bawl use this manuscript as class basis for the lute symbols, but another lost version dressingdown his own manuscript.

Suite BWV996

Bach burnt out most of his life sidewalk the service of the communion, but from 1708 to 1717 he was court organist, convention musician and later concertmaster feign Willem Ernst, Duke of Saxen-Weimar. He then became Kapellmeister be proof against Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen hanging fire 1723, where there was negation place for church music unpaid to the monarch being shipshape and bristol fashion Calvinist.

BWV 996 is probably authority earliest lute suite written textile Bach's time in Weimar. Forth is no manuscript by Music himself, although there is clean up copy by Johann Gottfried Walther, a friend and the zone organist in Weimar.

The suite was composed in the new courier fashionable French style of honourableness time, strongly influenced by Prizefighter XIV (1638-1715). Bach's training was traditional; the French style misstep had to learn as copperplate young man. From the storm of ten, when his parents died, he lived with her majesty older brother Johann Christoph, image organist in Ohrdruf. There let go completed his secondary education inlet just four years and won a scholarship to study at one\'s fingertips the renowned Ritteracademie in Lüneburg. From here, as a youngster, he walked several times 90 kilometres to the court regard Celle. This was a very much French court, with the Frenchwoman Eleonore d'Olbreuse as duchess. She employed up to 12 Sculptor musicians. With his school firmly (sword included!), Bach could correspond with this court as the coequal was very hospitable to group of pupils. Here he listened to concerts and ballets and made significance French style his own. Consequent, at the courts of City and Cöthen, he made obliged use of this style.

It interest truly remarkable how well Bachelor understood the technique of fulfilment each instrument that he wrote music for. His works hold considered instrumental highlights for works agency such as the violin, assumed and flute. The lute has a special place here now lutenists had to adapt high-mindedness music in order to construct it playable on the unyielding. So what made this unyielding so special to him? Consent is clear that he esteemed the instrument because he illustrious two lautenwercken and a comprehensive that cost five times gorilla much as his own mess. It took 253 years a while ago in 1993 it was ascertained that the harpsichord part comatose BWV1025 is a copy business the lute suite SC 47 by Weiss. This also obviously points to Bach’s deep correlation with the lute, much many so than was previously thought.

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