Sylvius Leopold Weiss is the central pin to the music I have chosen for this recording. He was the friend of J.S. Bach, inspiring him to write music for the lute,and was the teacher of Adam Falckenhagen,one of the last great lutenists of the eighteenth century.
During the seventeenth century the French had developed the art of playing the lute so far that composers such as the Gaultiers - le Vieux and Denis, Jacques Gallot and Charles Mouton, became celebrities throughout Europe. Many young German, Austrian and Silesian lutenists were influenced by these French lute masters,either directly through taking lessons or through the many manuscript notebooks of French lute music that circulated. Entire families of lutenists emerged across central Europe. Esjas Reusner (1636-1679) in Germany and Count Jan Anton Losy (ca.1645-1721) in Bohemia and Austria became the new masters of the lute and continued to compose in the French...
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Matthew Wadsworth
Jacob Heringman