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The original text of Dietrich Buxtehude’s suite is written in German organ tablature. It can be found in a manuscript from the University Library of Uppsala (Thomas lhre collection). This document does not indicate whether the suite is meant for the organ, a keyboard instrument or the lute. While transcribing this suite for the guitar, Julian Bream mainly referred to the manuscript of Uppsala and also to a slightly different version for a keyboard instrument. He does not mention the origin of this other version. Faber published Bream’s transcription in 1967.
The richness of Domenico Scarlatti’s harpischord sonatas has greatly appealed to guitarists who chose some of these outstanding pieces and easily adapted them to the timbre of the guitar. Carlos Barbosa-Lima transcribed the sonatas K 11, K 32, K 391 and K 533. These transcriptions were published by Columbia Music. The K 14 sonata belongs to a volume of nine sonatas — published by Gendai Guitar in 1983 — that Leo Brouwer has transcribed. Brouwer has recorded these sonatas with Erato in 1974.
Silvius Leopold Weiss was a great lute player and his own work for the lute was as famous as he was himself. Johann Joachim Quantz, Karl Heinrich Graun, Johann Josef Fux and Johann Sebastian were among his close friends. The most prestigious courts have acknowledged his talent, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Kassel … The two manuscripts of Weiss’s tablatures are to be found in the British Museum and in the Library of Dresden. The suite called « L’infidèle » is a fragment of the work « Intavolatura di liuto trascrizione in notazione moderna di Ruggero Chiesa dall’ originale del British Museum » published by Suvini Zerboni in Milano.
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