Fine half-length portrait engraving of the composer aged 63. Ca. 1622

by Adam Gumpelzhaimer

$150 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians · No longer available

143 x 97 mm. + wide margins.Slightly worn; edges browned. In very good condition overall. Possibly after the same painting on which the woodcut portrait in his Compendium Musicae of 1632 is based. Gumpelzhaimer spent most of his active life in Augsburg, where he was Kantor and Präzeptor at the school and church of St. Anna from 1581 until his death. He was probably best known to German musicians of and after his time

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