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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Sylvius Leopold Weiss! 🎻🍷 Composer: Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) Work: Sonata (d-moll) No. 20 Performers: Birgit Schwаb (baroque lute); Daniel Ahlеrt (mandolin) Sonata (d-moll) No. 20 1. Prelude 0:00 2. Un poco Andante 1:40 3. La Bandinage 5:21 4. Le Sicilien 8:28 5. Menuett 12:58 6. Gigue 15:23 Painting: Evaristo Baschenis (1617-1677) - Natura morta con strumenti musicali HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Silvius (Sylvius) Leopold Weiss (Breslau [now Wrocław], 12 October 1686 - Dresden, 16 October 1750) German lutenist and composer. A son of Johann Jacob Weiss () and brother of Johann Sigismund Weiss (), he was trained by his father and in his seventh year he performed for Emperor Leopold I. He began composing as early as 1706. From 1710 to 1714, he was in Rome in the service of Polish Prince Alexander Sobieski, whose mother employed both Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti. Doubtless, Weiss also knew Arcangelo Corelli in Rome. He then served Carl Philipp, imperial governor of the Tyrol, probably from 1715 to 1717, at which point he went to Dresden with a considerable salary increase. About this time, he married Maria Elizabeth (), and they had 11 children. His son Johann Adolf Faustinus Weiss (1741-1814) was also lutenist and composer. Silvius Leopold Weiss was regarded as one of the greatest lutenists of music history, he spent most of his career in the court of the Elector of Saxony at Dresden, from 1718 to his death, but his fame created demand for performances and instruction at the courts of Vienna, Munich, Prague, and Berlin, among other places he visited. His legacy of compositions is the largest in the history of the lute, more than 600 works: hundreds of dances organized into suites (“sonatas”) following the “classic” suite pattern of allemande, courante, bourrée, sarabande, minuet, and gigue, often preceded by an unmeasured prelude. Johann Sebastian Bach arranged No. 47 as a violin sonata with harpsichord (BWV 1025).
