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  • Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1843
By WINTERFELD, Carl von 1784-1852
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1843. Thick quarto. Full dark brown leather with "W.B. 1849" gilt to upper, titling to spine; ivory doublures, all edges gilt. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication to Friedrich Wilhelm dem Vierten, Könige von Preussen, verso blank), [v]-xvi, [xvii]-xviii ("Inhaltverzeichnis"), 514 pp. text + 161, [i] (blank) pp. engraved musical examples.

With bookplate of German musicologist and clergyman Dr. Christhard Mahrenholz (1900-1980) to front pastedown; contemporary notes in manuscript to verso of free front endpaper. Several of the musical works with added text in manuscript in an early hand.

Binding considerably worn; upper detached; lower hinge split; endpapers worn and soiled; several small ink spots to edges. Minor internal wear, browning, and foxing; occasional marginal annotations in pencil. First Edition of the first of three parts of this monumental work, published 1843-1847.

A German musicologist and one of the founders of the Bach Gesellschaft, Winterfeld was instrumental in the rediscovery of the works of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), publishing Schütz's compositions in his Giovanni Gabrieli und sein Zeitalter in Berlin in 1834.

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