Portrait engraving. Ca. 1580

by Paul Eber

$125 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Half-length. Within ornamental border. 145 x 90 mm. Slightly browned; minor remnants of former mount and small circular collector's handstamp to verso W . Collector's stamp not in Lugt.Bach used stanza 6 of Eber's New Year Hymn for the final four-part chorale of his Cantata 16, Herr, Gott, dich loben wir and set other Eber hymns in his Cantatas 28, 127, and 130.

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