Beschreibung:

Bach, Johann Sebastian--Johann Andreas Silbermann THE LOST AUTOGRAPH JOURNAL OF JOHANN ANDREAS SILBERMANN (1712-1783), THE STRASBOURG ORGAN AND INSTRUMENT BUILDER, RECORDING ENCOUNTERS WITH J.S. BACH, J.A. HASSE AND OTHERS, AND DESCRIBING BACH'S ORGANS AND MUSIC IN SAXONY, ENTITLED: “Anmerckungen derer Auf meiner Sächsischen Reysse gesehenen Merckwürdigkeiten Wie ich solche an unterschiedenen Orten meist nur kurtzlich aufgeschrieben”, A WORKING MANUSCRIPT, documenting his travels throughout Germany in 1741, a round-trip from his home city to Saxony between February and June, with accounts of the organs, organists, organ-makers, composers, artists, singers, works of art, buildings, palaces, churches, castles, church services, meals, food, drink, customs, festivals and funerals, including the long ceremonies following the death of General von Borkh in Berlin, travelling by coach and by boat on rivers; describing encounters with Johann Sebastian Bach (the anecdote from Gottfried Silbermann about playing the organ in Görlitz), Johann Adolf Hasse, Faustina Bordoni, J.G. Pisendel (1687-1755), Gottfried August Homilius (1714-1785), Francesco Maria Cataneo (c.1697-1758), Frederick the Great, Friedrich August II of Saxony, many of the most important organ-builders of the time, including Gottfried Silbermann (1683-1753) and his sons Michael and Abraham, Johann Scheibe (1675-1748), Sebastian Seitz, Johann Gottlieb Tamitius (1671-1769), Gräbner, Engelhard and Joachim Wagner (1690-1749), the sculptor Johann August Nahl the elder (1710-1785); providing detailed descriptions of the towns, villages and cities en route, with especially important sections on Eisenach, Erfurt, Leipzig, Zittau, Görlitz, Freiberg (near Meissen), Dresden, Berlin and Magdeburg; illustrated with many drawings in pen and ink, pencil and washes, including a folding-out panorama of Freiberg (Meissen), together with annotated engravings of many towns, maps and churches, and a complete itinerary with timings of the journeys, 284 pages, 4to (21.3x17cms), including several inserted leaves, original paginations in ink, with later additional pagination in pencil; 29 contemporary engraved views ad maps (17 double-pages) and other printed newspaper cuttings, trimmed and laid down, most annotated by Silbermann; 1741, with later additions of 1757 and later; early nineteenth-century German half-calf, ownership inscription on fly-leaf, joints worn, spine detached