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(MUSIC.) Fux, Johann Joseph. Gradus ad Parnassum. Letterpress music examples in text throughout. [10], 280 pages, including engraved allegorical additional title. Folio, 340x220 mm, old boards, later leather back and corners, somewhat worn; some marginal foxing, most noticeably on opening leaves. Signature of Adolf Mehlisch, Berlin, on additional title; H. P. Kraus bookplate. Vienna, Johann Peter Van Ghelen, 1725
first edition of Fux's manual of counterpoint, "the most influential composition treatise in European music from the 18th century onwards . . . It was used extensively by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven for pedagogical purposes"--New Grove IX, 365. Printing and the Mind of Man 183; RISM B VI¹, 340.
