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.

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). – With a small inscribtion at the inner front board. Boards coverd with a special marbled paper.