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Under the title "Handel, Supplement 5" is hidden a magnificent treasure, Gottlieb Muffat's "Componimenti Musicali" for the harpsichord, containing six suites and a Ciacona (cf. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich, Jahrgang III/3, Band 7). These pieces can be found on a gorgeous double disc (Glossa, 2009) that have just been recorded by Mitzi Meyerson. The reason why they figure in" Supplement 5" is that Handel borrowed theses compositions 16 times (see Meyerson's booklet p. 14).

It would be fine to have links or references "Muffat Gottlieb - Componimenti Musicali – see Handel, Supplement 5" under the rubrics "Composer", "Period", "Genre".

Best regards,

demars

spam?

I dont think so, no. He's saying that references within a work should be part of the search engine. It's not like he's selling sub-prime mortgages.

Let's not take this too far. Otherwise we'd have cross-references to Lehar's Merry Widow and Wagner's Meistersinger in the listing of Mahler's 7th Symphony (specifically, the last movement). And heaven help the person who has to put in the cross references when the bulk of Charles Ives' works go PD, not to mention the urtext critical editions of PDQ Bach.

--Sixtus

Or Bernd Alois Zimmermann

sbeckmesser wrote:urtext critical editions of PDQ Bach.

There are urtext editions of PDQ Bach?!?!?!

I bought a copy of these 'Componimenti' in sheet music years ago, because one of my hobbies is collecting sheet music and/or recordings from not very Known baroque and classical composers. This activity has helped me to discover very interesting musicians like Jan Dismas Zelenka (my last great finding) for instance, or Gottlieb Muffat, whom we are now speaking about. I've played myself all of Muffat's pieces, and I considerer them as good or nearly so as similar ones by J.S. Bach, Händel, Couperin or Rameau. I also own a recording of the 'Componimenti Musicali' (I don't remember the player now). I got it through 'emusic.com', but I don't like this version very much.