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The Haslemere Manuscript This manuscript contains tablatures that a lutenist from Dresden or Prague assembled in the second half of the 18th century, most likely to be used for his own playing or teaching. His instrument of reference was a 12-course D-minor-tuned lute. Some pieces require a 13th course, but they are few in number, and the indication of a 13th course may have been added later. This copyist often indicated a composer's name alongside the titles; however, many pieces, whose origin must have been known to him, are anonymous. The tablatures are generally grouped by key, in order to be played consecutively without having to retune the bass courses. Only rarely are these groups of pieces explicitly referred to as Suites or Sonatas. The original manuscript is now kept at the Carl Dolmetsch Library, in Haslemere, England; its reference is GB-HAdolmetsch ms II.B.2. Its history is unclear; it may have belonged to the Fétis collection, since we know that Fétis sold or traded several of the many works he had purchased1. In the early 20th century, the manuscript was acquired by Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940). Born French into a family of organ, piano and harmonium makers, Arnold Dolmetsch went to London to study early music and its instruments. He earned a baccalaureate in music in 1889, and settled in London. After teaching a short while, he began building keyboard instruments, and opened a lutherie workshop in Haslemere in Surrey, where he built copies of almost every sort of instrument played from the 15th to the 18th century. Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner (1676-1754) Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner was born in Austria, in Steyr an der Enns (a town located in the north of present-day Austria). His baptism certificate, dated 28 April 1676, states that he was the son of the local “Türmemeister” Wolff Jacob Lauffensteiner and of his wife Anna Susanna Werfferin. In Steyr, the young Wolff Jakob attended the Jesuit school. In 1682, his father applied for a scholarship from the town council for his “studious son”. At his father’s death, Wolff Jacob was only 13 year old. Later, it was as a lutenist that Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner settled in Graz. The official records of Styria indicate that he was married, and déclare the death of one of his children, there. According to his own declarations, he subsequently entered the service of the Court of Bavaria in 1712. From 1712 to 1715, he was employed by the Prince-Elector of Bavaria Maximilian-Emmanuel each time his court sojourned in Graz. His position was that of valet de chambre, and his task was to teach various musical instruments, including the lute. In 1714, following the Treaty of Rastatt with Prince Eugene, which put an end to the bloody War of the Spanish Succession, the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian-Emmanuel returned to his Germanic states, left Namur and the State of Luxembourg whose sovereignty he had secured, and settled in Munich; Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner followed him and henceforth worked for him alone. At first, his salary was 350 Gulden (or florins); in 1715, it was increased by 100 Gulden to reward him for the musical education he had been giving the Prince for several years, mainly in the lute and other musical instruments; in 1717, it was again increased by 150 Gulden, in recognition of the “musics he had composed”.
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