Music.- Bach (Johann Sebastian).- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) De institutione oratoria libri duodecim, edited by Johann Matthias Gesner, title in red and black and with woodcut ornament, some spotting, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, lightly marked, 4to, Gottingen, Abraham Vandenhoeck, 1738. ⁂ With one of the earliest printed eulogies of Bach. Gesner was Rector of the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where Bach was Cantor. They became good friends, and Bach dedicated his 'Canon a 2 perpetuus' (BWV 1075) to Gesner.
Music.- Bach (Johann Sebastian).- Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) De institutione oratoria libri duodecim, edited by Johann Matthias Gesner, title in red and black and with woodcut ornament, some spotting, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, lightly marked, 4to, Gottingen, Abraham Vandenhoeck, 1738. ⁂ With one of the earliest printed eulogies of Bach. Gesner was Rector of the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where Bach was Cantor. They became good friends, and Bach dedicated his 'Canon a 2 perpetuus' (BWV 1075) to Gesner.
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