The passage on Weiss is found in a pastoral, pseudo-dramatic poem, written on the occasion of the birth of a Saxon prince and the return of the Elector Frederick Augustus I in 1720.
Dass aber der berühmte Sylvius LeopoldWeiss auf seiner Laute was rechtschaffens accompagnieren und auf derselben das praestiren kan, was andere müssen bleiben lassen, solches ist mehr seiner Geschicklichkeit als dem Instrument zuzuschreiben.
That the famous Sylvius LeopoldWeiss upon his lute is able to play a correct accompaniment and on that instrument accomplish what others have to avoid is more to credit his skill than the instrument.
Weiss had other links to the Bohemian aristocracy as his two tombeau were written after the deaths of Baron Cajetan von Hartig and Count Jan Antonin Losy von Losimthal.
We have further evidence of Weiss' relationship with Count Keyserlingk when in 1738 Weiss was arrested due to an affront to the Maitre des plaisirs von Breitenbauch.Keyserlingk intervened with a letter to the Minister of State Count von Bruhl praising the lutenists character and requesting his release.
October 1750Weiss died and was buried in the cemetery of the Catholic court church.
Silvius Leopold Weiss(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It may be because of this engraving that the spelling of Silvius’ Christian name change according to the dictionaries (when his name appeared in them !) and other publications, for it appears in the form of Sylvius and not Silvius, which he used to sign his letters.
Weiss’ two Christian names thus formulated are similar, only inverted, to those of Wolfgang Amadeus, for instance.
He actually signed his letters Silvius Leopoldus Weiss and called one of his sons (he had 7 children) Adolf Faustinus - who incidentally took after his father as lute player at the court of Dresden.
www.slweiss.de /index.php?lang=eng (355 words)
The Moscow Weiss Lute Manuscript(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The two principal sources of the lute music of SilviusLeopoldWeiss, the most important lutenist-composer of the eighteenth century, and one of the greatest of all time, are a manuscript now at the British Library in London (London), and a set of six manuscript volumes in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden (Dresden).
In 1977, a major landmark in Weiss research was the appearance of Douglas Alton Smith’s PhD thesis, ‘The Late Sonatas of SilviusLeopoldWeiss’,
The tablature of the Moscow Weiss MS is for the 13-course baroque lute, as used by SilviusLeopoldWeiss after about 1720.
www.orphee.com /weismain.htm (7918 words)
Radio Beethoven - Música y Músicos: Silvius Leopold Weiss(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Weiss puede disfrutar de las capillas musicales mas bellas y del gran teatro de la Opera de Dresden, y allí encuentra al gran flautista Buffardin y a su alumno Johann Joachim Quantz, y a los violinistas Francesco Veracini y Pisendel, estudiante que había aprendido con Vivaldi.
Weiss debe internarse y reposar durante un largo tiempo para restablecerse de sus heridas y finalmente parte a Munich con el flautista Buffardin para asistir a las bodas del príncipe elector de Bavaria.
Y a Weiss también, ya que dej.o una viuda, Marie-Elizabeth, y 7 pequeños hijos.
SilviusLeopoldWeiss is considered to be one of the greatest lutenist of all times.
Weiss was born on October 12, 1686 in Breslau, Silesia.
Weiss missed half of 1722 after a violinist had almost bit off his thumb, supposedly as an act of vengeance.
www.sologuitarist.net /weiss.html (347 words)
Classicalguitar.nl - View article - Weiss, Silvius Leopold (1686-1750 Poland)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Weiss must have enjoyed the court of Dresden, as proves his refusal to join the Imperial court in Vienna - who had offered him, in 1736, the positively indecent amount of 2000 Thalers.
WF Bach, the organ-player at Sainte Sophie in Dresden, was in Leipzig.
Weissâ final days are those of a man who is at the peak of his notoriety.
Amazon.co.uk: Weiss - Lute Sonatas: Music: Silvius Leopold Weiss(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This is both puzzling and unfortunate, because Weiss' music translates well to the guitar, and those which have been transcribed for this wonderful instrument are of such high quality that they are now favorites in the guitarists' repertoire.
A contemporary and friend of Bach, Weiss was both a virtuoso player and a composer -- a musical genius in his own right -- who composed about 600 pieces for the baroque lute and theorbo.
I applaud Schneeweiss' love for Weiss' music, and while I regret that he didn't love it enough to remain faithful to it, there is still time for an about-face.
Silvius Leopold Weiss - Index(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It may be because of this engraving that the spelling of Silvius’ Christian name change according to the dictionaries (when his name appeared in them !) and other publications, for it appears in the form of Sylvius and not Silvius, which he used to sign his letters.
Weiss’ two Christian names thus formulated are similar, only inverted, to those of Wolfgang Amadeus, for instance.
He actually signed his letters Silvius Leopoldus Weiss and called one of his sons (he had 7 children) Adolf Faustinus - who incidentally took after his father as lute player at the court of Dresden.
www.slweiss.com /an_index.html (355 words)
The Lute Society of America – What is a Lute? – Silvius Leopold Weiß(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
SilviusLeopold Weiß was probably born in 1687 in Grottkau (Grodków), near Breslau (Wroclaw), Silesia, an area now part of Poland.
SilviusLeopold Weiß and his wife Maria Elisabeth had 11 children.
His son Johann Adolf Faustinus Weiß, born in 1741, was sufficiently proficient musically to be appointed as the court lutenist in Dresden from 1763 to 1813, although after the 1760s that post must have been mostly nominal.
Sylvius Weiss' son Johann Adolph Faustinus Weiss succeeded him as a Saxon...
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Tim Crawford, Editing Weiss for the Sämtliche Werke: The composer's contribution to the London and Dresden manuscripts: paper delivered to the S. Weiss Congress, Freiburg, September 1992.
SilviusLeopoldWeiss: a site, in French, by Laurent Duroselle, with a translation in English.
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