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Edited successively by Carl Friedrich Whistling and A. Hofmeister.
Published variously by Anton Meysel, C.F. Whistling, and F. Hofmeister, Leipzig, 1817 to 1900.
Musical literature cited in this continuing series of catalogs is for the years 1815 to 1897.
The Handbuch is a "general systematic catalog of printed music and musical writings and illustrations" of the years from 1815 to 1940. This reprint covers up to the year 1897.
An extremely valuable reference work, the Handbuch was issued in three editions with component supplement issues. It underwent constant improvement and revision throughout its successive editions. It is a remarkable source of information about first editions, instrumentation, and arrangements of the music of a great many composers.
Publishers' advertisements and prices of new editions are also included. The thousands of publications cited throughout the editions cover instrumental ensemble music, music for piano and harpsichord and other keyboard instruments, all forms of vocal music, and myriad writings about music.
Included are alphabetical name indexes of both authors and publishers.
This microfiche reprint consists of the three editions:
HANDBUCH - First Edition. 1817. 593 pp.
Ten supplements to the First Edition : (totalling 731 pp.)
1st - 1818, 2nd - 1819, 3rd - 1820, 4th - 1821, 5th - 1822, 6th - 825,
9th - 1826, 10th - 1827.
HANDBUCH - Second Edition. 1828.1,158 pp.
Three supplements to the Second Edition: (totalling 883 pp.)
1st - 1829 (covering publications to the end of 1828).
2nd - 1834 (covering publications from 1829 to 1833).
3rd - 1839 (covering publications from 1834 to 1838).
HANDBUCH - Third Edition. 1844-45. Published in three volumes
Vol. I - 1844: strings, woodwinds, and guitar music. Vol. 11 - 1844:
piano and organ music. Vol. III - 1845: vocal music. All three volumes
total 718 pp.
Eight Supplements to the Third Edition (there were 16 supplements
published, but this reprint terminates with the supplement:
of the year 1900.
1st - 1852 (covering publications from 1844 - 1851); 382 pp.
2nd - 1860 (also called Vol. 5 of the third edition with the succeeding
supplements continuing as vols. 6, 7, etc.) (covering publcations
from 1852 to 1859); 470 pp.
3rd - 1868 (covering publications from 1860 - 1867); 561 pp.
4th - 1876 (covering publications from 1868 - 1873); 575 pp.
5th - 1881 (covering publications from 1874 - 1879); 685 pp.
6th - 1887 (covering publications from 1880 - 1885); 773 pp.
7th - 1893 (covering publications from 1886 - 1891);CCLII & 947 pp.
8th - 1900 (in two volumes covering the years 1892 - 1897); 1,359 pp.
A total of 27 volumes and over 10,000 pages.
Complete Microfiche Reprint .................$390.00
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