Untersuchungen über den Ursprung der Harmonie und ihre allmählige Ausbildung.
Folding handcolored engraved frontispiece, two engraved plates (one folding & heightened in red), one folding plate of printed music, & music printing in the text. xii, 52 pp., one leaf of errata. 8vo, cont. marbled semi-stiff boards (spine a little defective), uncut. Erfurt: Beyer & Maring, 1800.
First edition of this attractive and fascinating book which relates harmony to colors; it is very much a product of early German Romanticism. Dalberg (1760-1812), was an author, composer, and aesthetician. He was “born into a noble family…though physically deformed, he was a virtuoso pianist…He studied composition with Ignaz Holzbauer and travelled extensively in Italy and England. His... More