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[BEGER, Lorenz (1653-1705).] Die über alle Tugende triumphirende Tugend der Beständigkeit. [Heidelberg or Mannheim, 1684]. 2° (349 x 231mm). Additional double-page engraved title, 18 double-page plates attributed to Johann Ulrich Kraus printed twice: the engraved set within the engraved border. (Title browned, repaired and laid down, a few plates with heavy ink at corners of inner engraving). 18th-century boards. Provenance: Helmstaedt, Crammer Library (early inscription) -- Heidelberg Büergermeister (ink stamp on title).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this impressive commemoration of an opera staged in the Heidelberg Castle at the Court of Carl II Elector of the Palatinate in 1684. The plates of the set design all within a wide proscenium-arch border, depict actors and dancers in elaborate costumes, some Oriental or Turkish, presumably in reference to the the 1683 battle of Vienna, that broke the advance of the Ottoman Empire into Europe. The author has been identified as the librarian, antiquarian and court poet Lorenz Beger, who served the Electors Carl Philip and Carl II. The ballet arrangements are by "Mons. Pelletier, Tanz-Meister," the music by "Hof-Musikus Hr. Joh. Henrich Christian." Berlin Katalog 4133 (incomplete with only 16 plates); Lipperheide Sbc 15 (incomplete with only 16 plates); Thieme-Becker XXI, p.441.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this impressive commemoration of an opera staged in the Heidelberg Castle at the Court of Carl II Elector of the Palatinate in 1684. The plates of the set design all within a wide proscenium-arch border, depict actors and dancers in elaborate costumes, some Oriental or Turkish, presumably in reference to the the 1683 battle of Vienna, that broke the advance of the Ottoman Empire into Europe. The author has been identified as the librarian, antiquarian and court poet Lorenz Beger, who served the Electors Carl Philip and Carl II. The ballet arrangements are by "Mons. Pelletier, Tanz-Meister," the music by "Hof-Musikus Hr. Joh. Henrich Christian." Berlin Katalog 4133 (incomplete with only 16 plates); Lipperheide Sbc 15 (incomplete with only 16 plates); Thieme-Becker XXI, p.441.
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