LUTE

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THEORBO

The first-ever music for solo theorbo by Kapsberger

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger was an Italian composer of German origin whose creative activity occupied the transition...
LUTE

Neapolitan lutier died in terrible plague that destroyed the kingdom

The worst disaster to strike the kingdom and city of Naples in the 1600s was the plague of 1656. The outbreak of the...
Classical Guitar

Lute fell into obscurity after the death of its greatest maestro

Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750) was one of the most important composers in lute music history. Born into a...
OUD

Endless possibilities for one of the world’s oldest instruments

Joseph Tawadros was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1983 and moved to Australia three years later. Several members of his family...
Classical Guitar

Bacheler's unusually bright lute music depicts Queen Anne of Denmark

Daniel Bacheler (1572-1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Details of his life were obscure until Anne Batchelor...
LUTE

Atmospheric collaboration of medieval and modern underground on Only Lovers Left Alive

For his post-modern tale of vampires trying to find purpose in their immortal lives, Jim Jarmusch employs his own group...
LUTE

Da Vinci's painting process depended on music

Leonardo Da Vinci was a master of many skills: architecture, astronomy, painting, sculpture, mathematics, anatomy,...
ORCHESTRA

Vivaldi's Bohemian Concerto was the last gift for the dying lute

Within Antonio Vivaldi's creative period, the lute was going out of fashion as the lead solo instrument, though its...