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[ Baroque ] Silvius Leopold Weiss : Lute Suite No. 16 - 6 : Minuet

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Uploaded by on Jan 19, 2009

[ Version : practice 1 / Recording effect : none ]

I just played this without much practice. So it sounds insufficient.


The followings are what Wikipedia says about the composer :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvius_Leopold_Weiss

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

Born in Grottkau near Breslau, 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 most important and most prolific composers of lute music in history and one of the best-known and most technically accomplished lutenists of his day. He wrote around 600 pieces for lute, most of them 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 only the solo parts have survived.

In later life, Weiss became a friend of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and met J.S. Bach through him. J.S.Bach and Weiss 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."

Sylvius Weiss' son Johann Adolph Faustinus Weiss succeeded him as a Saxon court lutenist.

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  • hi my name is paul t silvius 4 would he be one of my ancestor?? plzzz tell me my fam is rely small

  • I guess it is rare name - Silvius. As far as I know, it is a middle name though.

  • nice work :)

  • Thanks alot friend

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  • I guess it happen to deleted^^;;;

  • Thank you for the reply to my comment I found in my YT mailbox, but I do not see it here! Where it is? Disappeared? dominique

  • Well I know Don but can't located where it Weiss

    Thanks in advance if you can find^^;;;

  • Hi BJC.

    Good to hear from you again my friend. This is lovely. Scree123 (Don) posted a Weiss piece not that long ago that had a very interesting link to the man. I will try to find it for you.

    Regards,

    Paul

  • I love very much Sylvius Leopold Weiss. Contemporean de Bach. It was said the both were friends. Weiss was in Dresden.

  • Thanks aolt marjannonaka ^^;;;

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