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Esaias Reusner (29 April 1636, Lwówek Slaski
Lwówek Slaski

Lw?wek Slaski [] is a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. Situated on the B?br River, Lw?wek Slaski is about 30 km NNW of Jelenia G?ra and has a population of about 10,300 inhabitants....
, Silesia
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, Poland
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 – 1 May 1679, Berlin
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) was a German lute
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nist and composer.

His first lute teacher was his father Esaias (lutenist of the Prince of Bernstadt). He was a child prodigy and together with his father he traveled and performed at various courts. Then he studied with an unknown French lutenist. In this time, he wrote two collections of lute suites - Deliciae testudinis and Neue Lauten-früchte.






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Esaias Reusner (29 April 1636, Lwówek Slaski
Lwówek Slaski

Lw?wek Slaski [] is a town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland. Situated on the B?br River, Lw?wek Slaski is about 30 km NNW of Jelenia G?ra and has a population of about 10,300 inhabitants....
, Silesia
Silesia

Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in present-day Poland, with parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 – 1 May 1679, Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
) was a German lute
Lute

Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
nist and composer.

His first lute teacher was his father Esaias (lutenist of the Prince of Bernstadt). He was a child prodigy and together with his father he traveled and performed at various courts. Then he studied with an unknown French lutenist. In this time, he wrote two collections of lute suites - Deliciae testudinis and Neue Lauten-früchte. In the years from 1655 to 1672, he was in the service of a Silesian duke. Thereafter, he worked for a short time as a flute and lute teacher at the University of Leipzig
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. Finally in 1674, he was appointed chamber lutenist at the court of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg

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 in Berlin, where he remained until his death.

He is considered to be one of the best lute virtuosos of his time and one of the first great masters of the lute suites in Germany.

Works

  • Hundert geistliche Melodien evangelischer Lieder (One hundred spiritual melodies from evangelical songs) (for lute, 1676 or 1678)
  • various lute and orchestral suites


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