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Reusner was an important figure in German lute composition during the middle of the seventeenth century; the late Renaissance and Early Baroque. He worked in Silesia before going to Berlin in 1674 becoming the lutenist for the electoral court. Reusner composed two volumes of instrumental lute music, "Delitiae testudinis," and "Neue Lauten-Fruchte."
Reusner is historically important in the documentation of the development of the early lute suite as his compositions include the core structure of suites that were to be used later (i.e., the allemande-courante-sarabande-gigue). His twenty eight suites contained four to nine movements that were unified by either a major or minor tonal structure and the above core dances. Reusner was notably one of the first Germans to employ the use of French styles in his compositions for the lute.
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