Luthers Verdienste um Musik und Poesie. Eine Skizze.
8vo. 32 pp. Modern boards with label to upper cover. All edges red.
€ 850.00
First edition of the author's last effort, extremely rare. Dedicated to the newly acceded King Wilhelm I of Württemberg.
The German writer on music, composer and organist J. H. Knecht (1752-1817) "had musical instruction from local teachers, but was mainly self-taught. The writer C. M. Wieland, who lived near [his native] Biberach, was a friend and tutor of his [...] In 1771 he was appointed music director and organist in his native town, where he remained all his life apart from a short interlude during which he was court conductor at Stuttgart (1806-8). He enjoyed a great reputation as composer, organist and theorist of the Vogler school [...] Knecht's theoretical treatises are also indebted to Vogler" (New Grove X, 119f.).
A good, clean copy.
Kauffmann S. 73. Eitner V, 391. MGG VII, 1267.
