LoginJohn Dowland: Complete Lute Works
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Dowland did for lute music what Haydn did for the string quartet and Beethoven the piano sonata. The finest lutenist and songwriter of his age--he composed several of the greatest hits of the late 16th and early 17th centuries--the surviving lute works constitute a sort of encyclopedia of the possibilities of the instrument. There are song arrangements, dance pieces, tributes to the composer's friends, even a musical self-portrait. Much of the music is fashionably sad. Lute songs generally deal with the agony of lost love, and Dowland's most popular tune was called Lachrimae (Tears). Paul O'Dette is simply the best lutenis
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Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Release date: 11 November 1997
EAN: 0093046706425 UPC: 093046706425
Release date: 11 November 1997
EAN: 0093046706425 UPC: 093046706425
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