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| Id |
32130 |
| Category |
antiquarian book |
| Author / Composer |
SCHMIDT, August |
| Title |
Orpheus. Musikalisches Album für das Jahr 1842. Herausgegeben von August Schmidt. Dritter Jahrgang. |
| Place |
Wien |
| Publisher |
Friedrich Wolfe's Buchhandlung |
| Publication Date |
1842 |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
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| Series |
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| Size |
8vo. [viii], viii, 266pp. + folding music plates. |
| Description |
Pictorial printed boards (edges and corners worn, hinges weak) with portraits of artists and vignettes (a little faded and grubby). Includes frontispiece portrait of Mendelssohn and "Vollständiges Verzeichness der Compositionen von Dr. F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" on pp.iii-viii, being the earliest known catalogue of his compositions, with years of compositions and names of publishers. Music plates include compositions by Anton Hackel, Franz Seraphicus Hölzl, J. Hoven, C.G. Reissiger, Loewe and Blondels Lied [Op.53/1] by Robert Schumann. |
| Reference |
Elvers, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Briefe I, Anhang II, p.354. Schumann: first edition, McCorkle (Schumann) p.239. |
| Price |
£400.00 |
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