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The Court at Bayreuth                    | Brilliant Classics 94026

The Court at Bayreuth

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 94026

Barcode: 5028421940267

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 22nd March 2010

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Frederick the Great’s court in Potsdam was a re-creation in Germany of Versailles – Frederick loved all things French. He also imported the baroque lute, an instrument that had been created in France. Frederick was a gifted flautist, and employed Johann Joseph Quantz as his court composer and teacher. Meanwhile, Princess Wilhelmina, Frederick’s sister, was a gifted lutenist and pupil of the great Silvius Weiss. She and her husband, the Margrave of Bayreuth, established a small scale Versaille of their own in the small, north Baverian town and built a delightful opera house in the town that still exists.

Wilhelmina employed both Adam Falckhagen (1697-1754) and Joachim Bernhard Hagen (1720-87), the latter being the pupil of the former. The third composer on this CD is Christian Gottlieb Scheidler (1752-1815), one of the last great German lutenists. Although not connected with Bayreuth, his 12 Variations on a theme by Mozart represents the last known work written for the lute, and therefore is an apposite choice to end this programme of German classical lute music.

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