Half-length portrait engraving of this Alsatian composer, teacher and choral director, aged 57, by Jacob van den Heyden

  • 1625
By WALLISER, Christoph Thomas 1568-1648
1625. 167 x 99 mm.

Slightly browned and spotted.

Apparently drawn from life according to a note in the plate: "Iacob ab Heydé Sculpsit ad Vivum." Reproduced in MGG Vol. 14 col. 174.

"Walliser’s several musical appointments and his compositions show him to have been the most important musician in Strasbourg during the period 1600–50. In addition, the wide dispersion of his works attests to his reputation elsewhere." Clyde William Young and Édith Weber in Grove Music Online.

MORE FROM THIS SELLER

J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC

Specializing in Autograph Musical Manuscripts and Letters of Composers; First and Early Editions of Printed Music; Rare Books on Music and Dance; Original Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Photographs, and Ephemera relating to Music and Dance including Opera and Ballet. 15th to 21st Centuries.