Portrait engraving

by Melchior Haffner by Sethus Calvisius

$200 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Extracted from a contemporary publication; trimmed; small edge tears. 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 circle of scholarly friends, including the astronomer Johannes Kepler, Michael Praetorius and the music

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