Musen Almanach a MDCCLXXXV

Type:
boek
Titel:
Musen Almanach a MDCCLXXXV
Auteur:
Bürger, Gottfried August
Jaar:
1785
URL:
https://books.google.be/books?id=u_1cAAAAcAAJ Google Books
Onderwerp:
18th Century (1701-1800)
Poetry
Almanac
Song
Germany
alchemie
crescendo
dwarsfluit
lamento
Taal:
Duits
Uitgever:
Göttingen Dietrich 1785
Plaatsnummer:
ORPH.KTS1 C2.54 H1-019 (Orpheus Instituut)
Paginering:
208 pages music examples, engraved frontispiece and title page, folded pages 6x10 cm
Nota:
Modeled after the French 'Almanach des Muses' (see 09A29, 11A07 and 1B19), the 'Musen-Almanach' was founded in Göttingen in 1770. Johann Heinrich Voß (1751-1826) became its editor in 1774, but in 1775 founded his own almanac in Hamburg (see 06K11-14, H2-134, X3D13). In 1778 Bürger became editor of the Musenalmanach, a position he retained until his death. Another competing almanac was founded by Schiller (see H3-011 & X1B18)
Beautiful cover, depicting flowers on a pedestal, colored; Title page engraving by Christian Gottlieb Geyser (1742-1803); Frontispiece engraving titled 'Einfassung zu einer beliebigen Silhouette' by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1762-1840)
3 folded pages, score for two songs by Stegmann ('Lied zur Weinlese' and 'Das Lied der Trennung') and one song by Fr. W. Weiss ('Lied vom Liedchen an die Liebe')
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