Fine large portrait engraving signed M.B. Ca. 1700

by Ahasverus Fritsch

$325 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Bust-length. Within oval textual border. 260 x 170 mm. Slightly worn and creased at lower corners; laid down to backing sheet. A German hymnodist, Fritsch authored a collection of sacred songs published in 1679 in Jena RISM BVIII/1, 1679/02 . Bach used his hymns as sources for Cantatas 57, 123, 398, 399, and 485.

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