ON VIDEO
ABILITY RATING
Moderate/Advanced ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪
Key D minor Tempo 65bpm
Will improve your…
✓ Two-part harmony
✓ Broken chord plucking
✓ Sostenuto
If Paganini had played the lute and lived during the Baroque era then he may well have been hailed as the greatest lutenist of his time. But he wasn’t alive then, and he certainly didn’t play lute. No, that crown belongs to the Poland-born composer and virtuoso Silvius Leopold Weiss. Thought to have written over 1000 pieces for lute during his life, Weiss led an exceptionally accomplished musical career which saw him receive appointments as court musician for a multitude of Polish and German princes and counts. His longest appointment was in Dresden as chamber musician for Prince
