Michael Schäffer
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Michael Schäffer was a German lute
nist.
He was a pioneer in the rediscovery of French Baroque lute works and concertized widely as soloist and with chamber ensembles.
Schäffer was born in Cologne
. He received a musical education, as a violinist and violist, with his father Kurt Schäffer. His avocation, the guitar, led him to the lute.
Schäffer was one of the first to abandon "guitar technique" on the lute: he experimented with traditional lute techniques, and their expressive possibilities and implications: e.g. hand positioning, thumb-index alternation, etc..
He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Köln
.
There is a page dedicated to Michael Schäffer on this site
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.
He was a pioneer in the rediscovery of French Baroque lute works and concertized widely as soloist and with chamber ensembles.
Schäffer was born in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
. He received a musical education, as a violinist and violist, with his father Kurt Schäffer. His avocation, the guitar, led him to the lute.
Schäffer was one of the first to abandon "guitar technique" on the lute: he experimented with traditional lute techniques, and their expressive possibilities and implications: e.g. hand positioning, thumb-index alternation, etc..
He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Köln
Hochschule für Musik Köln
The Cologne University of Music is a music college in Cologne, and Germany's largest academy of music.-History:The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln...
.
External links
- http://susanjking.com/susanjking.com/Home.html
There is a page dedicated to Michael Schäffer on this site
Recordings
- French Baroque Lute Suites, rec. Nov 1997; Sean; CD release by Sony; Review
- Josef Haydn: Music for Lute and Strings (Michael Schäffer, Eva Nagora, Franz Beyer, Thomas Blees) LP; compiled on the CD: Music For Lute, Guitar, And Mandolin, VOX
- French Lute Music; Turnabout Records