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Gus Leonhardt calls it a day :(

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Baziron
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« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2011, 06:53:25 pm »

The Wikipedia article about Froberger seems competent and well-written (unlike much of Wikipedia!), but it contains a phrase which mystifies me.

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In 1649 Froberger travelled back to Austria. On his way back he stopped in Florence and Mantua to show the arca musurgica, a powerful compositional device Kircher taught him, to some of the Italian princes.

Does anyone know what this arca musurgica, actually was?  Baz?

Indeed Neil - a kind of amateur composer's "toolbox". Have a look here...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10610792@N04/920203454/in/set-72157601049643630
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« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2011, 08:39:54 pm »

Good gracious me!   :o  Now that has really boggled me for the rest of the evening!  What a magnificent thing!! Rather like a C17th version of CakeWalk or Finale :))

"Vorpsprung durch Technik", as Froberger said in Germany :)
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« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2012, 10:59:05 pm »

Sadly Gustav Leonhardt has left us.  His astounding legacy of recordings survives him.
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