File:Kuhnau Frontispiece Biblical Sonatas 1710.jpg

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Summary

Description

Engraving of Frontispiece for Johann Kuhnau's Six Biblical Sonatas, published in 1700 in Leipzig. The engraving shows an idealised music room from the late 17th and early 18th century. On the right the lady plays on a chamber organ with a large bible behind; there is a clavichord on the left; behind it the rounded corner or 'tail' of a harpsichord is just visible.

Date

1710

Source

IMSLP. Facsimile published in 1901. (A digital version of the engraving is also available in slightly lower quality on BdZ, the Bavarian Centre for Digitisation, and in the Paul Hirsch music collection of the British Library.)

Author

Immanuel Tietze, printer in Leipzig

Permission
(Reusing this file)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:37, 15 November 2020	2,789 × 1,788 (2.31 MB)	Mathsci	More details in engraving so inscriptions can be read
	02:09, 15 November 2020	1,663 × 1,066 (1.13 MB)	Mathsci	Better image quality, taken from Kuhnau's Complete Keyboard Works, Henle 2014
	13:59, 14 November 2020	2,299 × 1,439 (2.73 MB)	Mathsci	not the image intended
	13:54, 14 November 2020	1,500 × 2,096 (817 KB)	Mathsci	{{Information \|Description=Engraving of Frontispiece for Johann Kuhnau's Six Biblical Sonatas, published in 1700 in Leipzig \|Source=IMSLP. Facsimile published in 1901. A digital version of the engraving is also available in slightly lower quality on BdZ, the Bavarian Centre for Digitisation. \|Date=1710 \|Author=Immanuel Tietze, printer in Leipzig \|Permission={{PD-100}} \|other_versions= }}