Anweisung zum Generalbassspielen ... Dritte, verbesserte Auflage

Halle: Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1816. Octavo. Contemporary marbled boards. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), x (foreword), 390 pp. With numerous musical examples.

Small ownership signature "G.M. Klein" to title; contemporary manuscript note to free front endpaper regarding cost of book and binding; notes to recto of free rear endpaper regarding Greek modes.

Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Light uniform browning.

In very good condition overall. Third edition, revised.

Turk, a German theorist and composer, became director of music at Halle University in 1779, lecturing on theory and composition.

"Turk's Klavierschule (1789) was, for late eighteenth-century readers, an unsurpassed source of practical wisdom. ... Equally clear and vivid, though less celebrated is [his] Kurze Anweisung sum Generalbassspielen (1791), which systematically addresses the declining art of figured-bass realization. ... The work elucidates the notation of the figures and contains examples of many individual chord types." Damschroder and Williams p. 362.