William Waters - Esaias Reusner: Erfreuliche Lauten-Lust (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 463 Mb | Total time: 121:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 95242 | Recorded: 2016
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 463 Mb | Total time: 121:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 95242 | Recorded: 2016
Esiaias Reusner (1636-1679) is properly known as Reusner the younger. Born in Silesia in the middle of the Thirty Years’ War which was then ravaging Europe, he was taught by his father, who was a musician in the local ducal court. By the age of 12 young Esiaias had entered the service of the Swedish general Count Wittenberg as a page. Having moved around Europe in the employ of several aristocrats, he settled back in his home region by the age of 20 as lutenist to Georg III, Duke of Silesia. He retained this position for another 20 years before moving to Leipzig and then Berlin, where he died in 1679.