Weiss: Sonatas

Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) was a German composer and arguably the master lutenist of the 18th century. Composer: Silvius Leopold Weiss Artists: Wolfgang Rübsam (lute-harpsichord) Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer): More Information: In addition to being one of the greatest players of all time, he was one of the most important and most prolific composers of lute music in history. 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, consisting mostly of Baroque dance movements. This recital features some of Weiss’s sonatas (he called them ‘Suonate’) for solo lute. They have come down to us in a variety of tablature manuscripts, and many are missing their preludes, which were usually improvised. Weiss’s music is charac