Johann Philipp Kirnberger
Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik aus sicheren Grundsätzen hergeleitet und mit deutlichen Beyspielen erläutert, Berlin and Königsberg: G.J.Decker and G.L.Hartung, 1774-1779
FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND PART, 4 volumes: 5 leaves, 250 pages and 6 leaves; 2 leaves, 153 pages; 1 leaf, 232 pages, 1 leaf; and 2 leaves, 188 pages, 4to (c.20.6 x 17cm), extensive type-set music, engraved and printed vignettes on titles, later manuscript annotation in blue ink to the title of the 'Erste Abtheilung' of the second part, contemporary vellum boards, marbled boards and wrappers, some browning and damp-staining, some wear to bindings
Kirnberger was apparently a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig around 1739. He later moved to Berlin where he was among the most significant of the remarkable group of theorists based in the Prussian capital, which included Quantz, Marpurg and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. His Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik is regarded as one of his finest works. Among the examples found in the work are excerpts from compositions by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach and Handel. It includes the first printing of the Christe eleison from Bach’s Mass in A (BWV 234).
LITERATURE:Hirsch, i.272; RISM, Ecrits, p.453
PROVENANCE:Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 1997 (lot 6)
Johann Philipp Kirnberger
Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik aus sicheren Grundsätzen hergeleitet und mit deutlichen Beyspielen erläutert, Berlin and Königsberg: G.J.Decker and G.L.Hartung, 1774-1779
FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND PART, 4 volumes: 5 leaves, 250 pages and 6 leaves; 2 leaves, 153 pages; 1 leaf, 232 pages, 1 leaf; and 2 leaves, 188 pages, 4to (c.20.6 x 17cm), extensive type-set music, engraved and printed vignettes on titles, later manuscript annotation in blue ink to the title of the 'Erste Abtheilung' of the second part, contemporary vellum boards, marbled boards and wrappers, some browning and damp-staining, some wear to bindings
Kirnberger was apparently a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig around 1739. He later moved to Berlin where he was among the most significant of the remarkable group of theorists based in the Prussian capital, which included Quantz, Marpurg and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. His Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik is regarded as one of his finest works. Among the examples found in the work are excerpts from compositions by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach and Handel. It includes the first printing of the Christe eleison from Bach’s Mass in A (BWV 234).
LITERATURE:Hirsch, i.272; RISM, Ecrits, p.453
PROVENANCE:Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 1997 (lot 6)
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