Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
The manuscript from which these pieces are taken lies in the library of the Augustinian Abbey in Klosterneuburg, Austria, and dates from around the year 1700. I am playing from the Tree Edition of this work, edited with a forward by Michael Treder, who has skillfully grouped these pieces into "partitas," of which there are nineteen, along with a number of individual pieces, all of which I hope to record in time.
Please note that Michael Treder lists the final selection ("Ciaccona") as an individual piece.
To listen to all the recordings from this manuscript as they become available, please see this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?.list=PLg2GtsZ0EeLtuwZBAk4s4RQcH45kcQepE
If you enjoy lute music, please see the playlist of my lute recordings here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg2GtsZ0EeLtMBkiDQDVzG8rARl6X3WEh.
The manuscript from which these pieces are taken lies in the library of the Augustinian Abbey in Klosterneuburg, Austria, and dates from around the year 1700. I am playing from the Tree Edition of this work, edited with a forward by Michael Treder, who has skillfully grouped these pieces into "partitas," of which there are nineteen, along with a number of individual pieces, all of which I hope to record in time.
Please note that Michael Treder lists the final selection ("Ciaccona") as an individual piece.
To listen to all the recordings from this manuscript as they become available, please see this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?.list=PLg2GtsZ0EeLtuwZBAk4s4RQcH45kcQepE
If you enjoy lute music, please see the playlist of my lute recordings here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg2GtsZ0EeLtMBkiDQDVzG8rARl6X3WEh.








![Renaissance Lute: Polish Dances from the Danzig Lute Book (1621) Part One
The Danzig Lute Book, published in Gdansk, Poland in 1621, contains forty-four Polish Dances (Balleti Polachi), which I intend to present in four videos of eleven pieces each. For this series, I am playing from Sarge Gerbodes wonderful edition of this manuscript. The present video offers Polish Dances one to eleven. ( Please note that the numbers of these dances refer simply to their order of appearance on Sarges website [lutemusic.org], not to their order in the original manuscript.)
Those of you who listen to my recordings regularly know that I generally illustrate them with works of art. Since I have had trouble finding paintings of Polish dances, I have chosen to illustrate these four videos with paintings of the city of Gdansk (by the way, Danzig was the name of Gdansk when it belonged to Prussia or Germany).
If you enjoy this music, you might like to consult my playlist of lute videos here: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLg2GtsZ0EeLtMBkiDQDVzG8rARl6X3WEh/videos. Renaissance Lute: Polish Dances from the Danzig Lute Book (1621) Part One](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QFJN9cCLy3M/mqdefault.jpg)

