Silvius Leopold Weiss - The Complete Lute Sonata IX in C Major, Dresden MS for Classical Guitar, Transcribed, Arranged and Marked for Solo Classical Guitar by Richard F Sayage, in association with Savage Classical GT.A book of delightful and challenging classical guitar music for the classical guitarist looking for new guitar music by Weiss, the master lutenist. Fully marked and fingered, 13 pages of music. Beginner to Advanced.

Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) was a prominent Baroque composer and lutenist known for his exceptional contributions to lute music. Born in Grottkau, Silesia (now part of Poland), and a contemporary of Johan Sebastian Bach, Weiss displayed exceptional talent from an early age and quickly rose to become one of the most esteemed lute virtuosos of his time. The Dresden manuscript contains a collection of Weiss's works preserved in the court of Dresden, where he served as a musician. The pieces found in this manuscript showcase Weiss's mastery of the instrument and his ability to create intricate and emotionally evocative compositions. From dazzling preludes and lively dance suites to introspective sarabandes and expressive fantasies, Weiss's lute music in the Dresden manuscript reveals his deep understanding of both the technical capabilities of the lute and the expressive possibilities of music. Recommended for Intermediate and Advanced Performers

Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) was a prominent Baroque composer and lutenist known for his exceptional contributions to lute music. Born in Grottkau, Silesia (now part of Poland), and a contemporary of Johan Sebastian Bach, Weiss displayed exceptional talent from an early age and quickly rose to become one of the most esteemed lute virtuosos of his time. The Dresden manuscript contains a collection of Weiss's works preserved in the court of Dresden, where he served as a musician. The pieces found in this manuscript showcase Weiss's mastery of the instrument and his ability to create intricate and emotionally evocative compositions. From dazzling preludes and lively dance suites to introspective sarabandes and expressive fantasies, Weiss's lute music in the Dresden manuscript reveals his deep understanding of both the technical capabilities of the lute and the expressive possibilities of music. Recommended for Intermediate and Advanced Performers

Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 – 1750) is known to guitarists as the greatest baroque composer for the lute, yet most are only familiar with the earlier portion of Weiss’s prolific output found in the British Library in London. Inspired by a forty-year friendship with the late Douglas Alton Smith - a major figure in the scholarly study of the history of the lute - guitarist, composer, and head of the guitar program at Temple University in Philadelphia, Allen Krantz explored the Weiss manuscripts found in other European cities, particularly the Dresden editions which contain the fifteen sonatas that Weiss produced from the late 1730s to the end of his life. Transcriptions of three of those fifteen late sonatas are featured in this book in modern standard notation along with the original lute tablature as found in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden. While the baroque lute’s tuning makes some works awkward or impossible on the guitar, the three works presented here—Sonatas No. 35 in D minor, No. 42 in A minor and No. 45 in A Major— are in their original keys which happen to be guitar-friendly. The author’s generous and scholarly “Preface” provides thorough historical and performance notes for the music in this volume. While just three of Weiss’s 109 multi-movement lute sonatas are represented here, the importance of this publication cannot be overstated. It contains some of the greatest music of a masterful lutenist— Weiss once faced-off with J. S. Bach on keyboards in a counterpoint improvisation contest—now made accessible to the modern classical guitarist.