Sperontes, Singende Muse an der Pleisse

Richter

Boëtius, Christian Friedrich (1706-1782)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1736

Height:

22.0 cm  (8 11/16 in.)

Width:

26.0 cm  (10 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

etching

Description

"Engraving is the title page of an 18th century collection of songs, published in several editions. In addition to identifying the collection, the work presents a scene in Leipzig, with allegorical figures, human figures, and putti involved with music, and with several buildings labeled with letters and identified in a key at the bottom center of the page. One putto holds a banner with the music to one of the songs in the collection, "Das angenehme Pleiss Athen." Represented are "the City of Leipzig" as an allegorical figure playing the clavichord, Mercury holding a music book, a female playing the clavichord, a male playing the lute, a male holding a drum and curved horn, a putto holding a lute and music, and a putto holding a recorder and music."

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Clavichord [2232]
Lute [3394]
Drum [2585]
Horn [4118]
Lute [3394]
Recorder [4039]
Trumpet [4446]
Viol [3597]
Lute [3394]
Harp [3285]
Recorder [4039]
Transverse flute [4093]
Clavichord [2232]
Guitar [3237]
Hunting horn [4138]
Violin [3573]
Zither [3729]

Musical works

illegible music notation
Das angenehme Pleiss Athenlegible music notation

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst, 1. Folge, 35. u. 36. Bd., (Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1958) [xlix] .

Sperontes. Singende Muse an der Pleisse:
in 2 mahl 50 Oden der neuesten und besten musicalischen Stücke mit den darzu gehörigen Melodien zu beliebter Clavier-Ubung und Gemüths-Ergötzung, nebst einem Anhange aus J. C. Günthers Gedichten (Leipzig: Dt. Verl. für Musik, 1736).

Grove Music Online, "Sperontes [Scholze, Johann Sigismund], 1705-1750."

RIdIM record id

467