Portrait engraving

by Melchior Haffner, bust-length by Sethus Calvisius

$225 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Extracted from a contemporary publication.Narrow strip of mounting tape to upper margin of verso.A strong impression, in near-fine condition. MGG Vol. 2, cols. 675/676 a similar image . Calvisius, a German music theorist, composer, teacher, chronologist and astronomer, was one of the most influential German theorists of his time and prominent in the musical and intellectual life of Leipzig ... He had a wide

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