LE TOMBEAU DE MADAME LA COMTESSE DE LOGY, composed by ANTONIN LOGY, Rafael Andia, baroque guitar.

TOMBEAU DE MADAME LA COMTESSE DE LOGY, composed by JAN ANTONIN LOGY, Rafael Andia, baroque guitar.
Allemande [00:17]
Menuet [03:19]
Sarabande [04:17]
recorded 09/01/2022
As I was leafing through a guitar book from the end of the 17th century (CS-Pnm, XLb209 from Prague), forty years later, I decided to take up a work that appears in it: the TOMBEAU DE LA COMTESSE DE LOGI written by his son Jan Antonin LOSY. The exact title, written in French, had always moved me:Tombau sur la mort de Madame La contesse de Logi faite par Monsieur le Conte Antonio sons filsI will not enter into the debate as to whether Jan Antonin LOGY, or (Logi or Losy or Losi von Losinthal) really wrote pieces for the guitar or whether he was a pure lutenist. Suffice it to say that, even if this TOMBEAU in C minor resembles a work for lute (which would then be the original), the fact remains that this guitar tablature is the only surviving witness. And that consequently, playing this piece on the guitar is the only opportunity to try to bring the work back to life. This TOMBEAU is in the form of a suite of three pieces, a very slow allemande in the tradition of the TOMBEAUX, a groaning but rhythmic sarabande, and a light-hearted minuet which erases the sadness of the first two and which, with its strong rhythm, announces an impulse towards life. The key of C minor is rare on the guitar in general, except for TOMBEAUX such as Francesco Corbetta's on the death of Madame d'Orléans and Robert de Visée's on the death of Corbetta himself. C minor poses many problems for the instrumentalist, particularly because of the lack of open strings; it is possible that the unusual and even sometimes painful efforts required to make the guitar sound were intended by the author as a way of rendering the suffering of mourning through the suffering of the performer.

[@danielfajardo9092]

Bellísimo... que hermosa guitarra

[@karinemarchitto6368]

J adore la sonorité, bravo!

[@Viennalute]

Dear Rafael, Is this MS CS-Pnm, XLb209 for baroque guitar OR for baroque lute? In a booklet of the German Lute Society I spotted this piece in baroque lute tablature. Kind regards, Ernst from Vienna.