Allemande for Lyra Viol by Constantijn Huygens

[@VA-lo4ul]

What a great piece, and to think that it is the only surviving viol composition by Huygens! Gosh, history is so cruel!

[@thoughtsforthebuilders]

Just finished reading Sagan’s _Cosmos_ yesterday, who spent some time describing Huygen’s son’s importance to astronomy. Your upload is aptly timed for my sake (: great performance!!

[@Bettina-o1s]

Wunderschön, vielen Dank

[@polimeque-vamos]

Superbe ! Merci beaucoup.

[@roveredam]

Super ! Bravo !

[@IvanRevi]

Gorgeous, thanks for putting this out there.

[@huubbogaers6320]

Nice piece! Thank you for making it available to us. One correction: Constantijn Huygens was not a royal secretary, but secretary to two princes/stadhouders, Frederik Hendrik and Willem II. They were as far as I understand not considered royalty. The Dutch did not have a king after dumping Philip II (1581) and before the French imposed his brother Louis Napoleon upon the Netherlands(1806).

[@metalgamba]

That's a good point Huub, I agree. How would you express this role succinctly?

[@eshaneogy]

Maybe noble secretary or similar, if they were considered not royalty but nobility?

[@websterwilliams5807]

Nice! What's the tuning for this?