Without anyone around who plays the lute well enough to refute the idea, it is gradually repeated and eventually accepted.A German musicologist presents a contrary opinion, claiming that Bach is a composer of lute music.The music is first indexed, edited and published by the Bach Gesellschaft in the 19th Century as keyboard music. Most of his music remains in hand-copied versions (MSS) in his lifetime.With the arrival of an enlarged and improved instrument, he adapts favourite earlier material to it. Over a period of years and in a mood to experiment, Bach writes thin-textured music for his own use on a gut-strung keyboard instrument or clavichord.The real story is everything that happened after his death that connects the works in question to the lute. Recent scholarship and the work of a number of makers and players of 18th Century-style keyboards have made it obvious that Bach wrote the music for, and probably at, the lute-harpsichord. The apocryphal lute works lie well within the confines of Bach’s established keyboard style, and other than a poorly thought-out arrangement, ill-suited to the instrument and worked-out at the keyboard (BWV 995, Suite in G minor), almost nothing from the composer really links them to the lute. Wikipedia reads:” Bach composed a suite and several other works for solo lute.” You know what I am going to say next–perhaps you should sit down…: A more up-to-date reading of the evidence would be that Bach did not write any music specifically intended for solo lute. Bach wrote four suites and a number of miscellaneous pieces for the lute, now played on the guitar. Part IĪs student guitarists, we learned that J. All images provided by Clive Titmuss. Click on the images to enlarge.
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