Michael Schäffer (lutenist), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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German lutenist
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About Michael Schäffer (lutenist)
- Michael Schäffer (11 November 1937 – 7 September 1978) was a German lutenist. 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.
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