Anfangsgründe der Theoretischen Musik
- Leipzig: Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1757
Leipzig: Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1757. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [iv] ("Vorbericht"), [ii] ("Inhalt"), 176 pp. First Edition. Gregory-Bartlett p. 167. Wolffheim I, p. 135. RISM Écrits p. 540.
Bound with:
Hrn. d'Alembert, Mitglieds der königl. preuß. Academie der Wissenschaften, und der königl. Academie der Wissenschaften zu Paris, Systematische Einleitung in die Musicalische Setzkunst, nach den Lehrsätzen des Herrn Rameau. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen vermehret ... Leipzig: bey Joh. Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1757. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [v] ("Vorbericht des Herrn d'Alembert"), [iii] ("Vorbericht des Uebersetzers"), [ii] ("Inhalt"), 136 pp. First German edition. Gregory-Bartlett p. 11. Eitner VI, p. 340. RISM Écrits p. 78.
Small quarto. Full contemporary mid-tan mottled calf, spine in decorative compartments gilt with titling gilt, red edges, marbled endpapers, dark green silk marker.
Provenance
Noted American harpsichordist Louis Bagger (1926-2024)
With woodcut devices to titles incorporating bear and warrior and occasional decorative devices throughout.
Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor internal wear, browning, small stains, and foxing. "German critic, journalist, theorist and composer. Gerber claimed that Marpurg had told him that he lived in Paris around 1746; Carl Spazier confirmed this, adding that Marpurg was friendly with Voltaire, D'Alembert and others when he was secretary to a 'General Bodenburg'. This is generally assumed to refer to Generallieutenant Friedrich Rudolph Graf von Rothenburg, a favourite of Frederick the Great and Prussian emissary to Paris in 1744-5, and the dedicatee of Marpurg's Der critische Musicus an der Spree (1749-50). ... Marpurg's translation (1757) of D'Alembert's Elémens de musique was largely responsible for the propagation of Rameau's theories in Germany." Howard Serwer in Grove Music Online
"[D'Alembert's] most important musical publication was his Elemens de musique theorique et pratique ..., an outstanding work of elucidation which was widely read for over 50 years." TNG Vol. 5, p. 154.
"Drawing largely upon Rameau's Démonstration (but also upon the Génération harmonique of 1737 for the rules of composition in Part 2), the Elémens was a stunning example of d'Alembert's talent for conceptual synthesis and clarity; it quickly became the most widely read source for information of Rameau's theory, both in France and in Germany (where it appeared in translation by Marpurg in 1757)." Thomas Christensen in Grove Music Online.
Bound with:
Hrn. d'Alembert, Mitglieds der königl. preuß. Academie der Wissenschaften, und der königl. Academie der Wissenschaften zu Paris, Systematische Einleitung in die Musicalische Setzkunst, nach den Lehrsätzen des Herrn Rameau. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen vermehret ... Leipzig: bey Joh. Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1757. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [v] ("Vorbericht des Herrn d'Alembert"), [iii] ("Vorbericht des Uebersetzers"), [ii] ("Inhalt"), 136 pp. First German edition. Gregory-Bartlett p. 11. Eitner VI, p. 340. RISM Écrits p. 78.
Small quarto. Full contemporary mid-tan mottled calf, spine in decorative compartments gilt with titling gilt, red edges, marbled endpapers, dark green silk marker.
Provenance
Noted American harpsichordist Louis Bagger (1926-2024)
With woodcut devices to titles incorporating bear and warrior and occasional decorative devices throughout.
Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor internal wear, browning, small stains, and foxing. "German critic, journalist, theorist and composer. Gerber claimed that Marpurg had told him that he lived in Paris around 1746; Carl Spazier confirmed this, adding that Marpurg was friendly with Voltaire, D'Alembert and others when he was secretary to a 'General Bodenburg'. This is generally assumed to refer to Generallieutenant Friedrich Rudolph Graf von Rothenburg, a favourite of Frederick the Great and Prussian emissary to Paris in 1744-5, and the dedicatee of Marpurg's Der critische Musicus an der Spree (1749-50). ... Marpurg's translation (1757) of D'Alembert's Elémens de musique was largely responsible for the propagation of Rameau's theories in Germany." Howard Serwer in Grove Music Online
"[D'Alembert's] most important musical publication was his Elemens de musique theorique et pratique ..., an outstanding work of elucidation which was widely read for over 50 years." TNG Vol. 5, p. 154.
"Drawing largely upon Rameau's Démonstration (but also upon the Génération harmonique of 1737 for the rules of composition in Part 2), the Elémens was a stunning example of d'Alembert's talent for conceptual synthesis and clarity; it quickly became the most widely read source for information of Rameau's theory, both in France and in Germany (where it appeared in translation by Marpurg in 1757)." Thomas Christensen in Grove Music Online.
Details
Title
Anfangsgründe der Theoretischen Musik
Author
MARPURG, Friedrich Wilhelm 1718-1795
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf: Leipzig
Date
1757