Music – Mattheson, Johann. – Der vollkommene Capellmeister, das ist gründliche Anzeige aller derjenigen Sachen, die einer wissen, können, und vollkommen inne haben muß, der einer Capelle mit Ehren und Nutzen vorstehen will.

First print of the first edition, „Neues Verzeichnis bisheriger Matthensonischer Werke“ which is only missing in the first print. The rare original edition of the most important work of Matteson, an encyclopedia of knowledge of the music-practice of its time. An undispensable source for music-academics. He brings together a vast array of facts as well as his most complete statement of several major theoretical concepts. These include the systematizing of the doctrines of rhetoric as they become the basic of compositio…A lengthy discussion of emotion in music leads to…the only attempt found in baroque literature to arrive at a true „Doctrine“ of the Affections. (New Grove 11, p. 835). – Mattheson’s most important and extensive theoretical work, „an encyclopedia of the entire musical practice of his time“, in the extremely rare original edition. The important matters from music theory and aesthetics, which are often dealt with quite briefly in the 3 „Orchestras“, in the „Critica musica“, in the two „Schools for basso continuo“ as well as in the „Core of melodic science“, are treated in such detail that this work must almost be called a fundamental one (Schmidt). Mattheson’s works have become an indispensable source for musicology, because without them it is difficult to understand the great music-historical turn that took place in his time. Joseph Haydn owned a copy of it; Goethe knew it, as is evident from his letter to Zelter of Jan. 1, 1819. – Cannon No. 138; Wolffheim I, 819; Hirsch I, 378. – With a small inscribtion at the inner front board. Boards coverd with a special marbled paper.