Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Wikipedia: Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687 – 1750) was a German composer and lutenist. Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died. Until recently, he was thought to have been born in 1686, but recent evidence suggests that he was in fact born the following year

According to his students Ernst Gottlieb Baron, Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, Adam Falckenhagen and hist son Johann Adolf Faustinus was Weiss the best lutenist of his time and looking back the latest lutenist as an European court

Weiss probably wrote more than 1000 pieces for lute, from which about 850 attributed pieces survived, most of them grouped into 'sonatas' or suites, which consist mostly of baroque dance pieces. His compositions are influenced by the Austrian Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner who lived in the same period.

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• Late baroque composers: Bach, Visee

• Other German composers