Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Pièces de luth - Hopkinson Smith

Sorry, I forgot to include some biography. Here you are, from Wikipedia:

Silvius Leopold Weiss (October 12, 1687 – October 16, 1750) was a German composer and lutenist.

Born in Grodkow, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died. Until recently, he was thought to have been born in 1686, but recent evidence suggests that he was in fact born the following year.

Weiss was one of the best-known and most technically accomplished lutenists of his day. He was also a prolific composer for the instrument, and wrote around 600 pieces for it. Many of his works are grouped into 'sonatas' (not to be confused with the later classical sonata, based on sonata form) or suites, which consist mostly of baroque dance pieces. Weiss also wrote chamber pieces and concertos, but no complete example survives.

In later life, Weiss became a friend of J.S. Bach. The two were said to have competed in improvisation, as the following account by Johann Friedrich Reichardt describes:

"Anyone who knows how difficult it is to play harmonic modulations and good counterpoint on the lute will be surprised and full of disbelief to hear from eyewitnesses that Weiss, the great lutenist, challenged J. S. Bach, the great harpsichordist and organist, at playing fantasies and fugues."

And apropos of anecdotes, here you are one about Weiss, that will be truly appreciated only by those who play (and tune) the lute, which, in contrast to guitar, has wooden pegs and pegbox that regularly go out of tune while you play (and don't forget, Weiss' Baroque lute had twenty-five strings!)

In a company he was asked for how many years he had played lute. He told twenty. However, there was someone there who knew that Weiss actually had begun to play lute forty years earlier, and reminded him of this. "Yes, forty" Weiss said, "but in fact I have only played twenty. In the other twenty I have tuned."

Just to imagine and be horrified, here you are a pegbox of a Weiss-type 13 choirs [25 strings] Baroque German lute, from the site of the Lute Society of America (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/aboutLute/):

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Hehe... images are not displayed in comments. Well then, check the image on the original page: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/aboutLute/Pegbox.html .

un grand merci à toi vidra, un double merci même, pour ce très beau disque et pour la dédicace !
bonne année à toi et à ta famille!

http://www.ftp2share.com/file/14896/WeissHopkinsonSmith.html

Thanks where is download push button?

press "Link to File"

Thank you, vidra!

Posted by :: prostokaktus | Date :: Jan 4, 2007 13:30:30
press "Link to File"

Thanks,thanks,thanks

Thanks!

@vidra: your taste is very fine!

Thanks

The is no link for the 3rd part of the package.
Someone can provide the link ? Thank a lot, in advance.

Here you are: http://rapidshare.com/files/10086877/WeissHopkinsonSmith.part3.rar

Direct RS links:

Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Pièces de luth - Hopkinson Smith (80 MB each):

http://rapidshare.com/files/10019053/WeissHopkinsonSmith.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/10072609/WeissHopkinsonSmith.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/10086877/WeissHopkinsonSmith.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/10043352/WeissHopkinsonSmith.part4.rar

Dresden Manuscript, tablature transcription by Richard Civiol (2 MB):

http://rapidshare.com/files/10055404/Weiss__Dresden_Manuscript.rar

Thank you very much!