SADELER, JOH., DE VOS, MARTIN
(Raymundi, Daniel). Fiat cor meum,
Mm. 200 x 274, cut a few within the copperplate border, good impression but some browned. First edition (?). Engraved picture-motet by Raymundi, within an engraving by Johann Sadeler, after a painting by Martin de Vos, showing St Cecilia praying on the left, with the music for the entire motet in five voices shown as an open choir-book and, on the right, an angel playing an organ from the open choirbook. This is one of the earliest examples of engraved music, containing the complete parts for a motet for five voices, The music appears in choir-book format, with the name of the composer engraved at the end. This engraving is complete in itself, one of several issued separately by Johann Sadeler during the 1590s. Signed at right bottom corner "Ioan. Sadeler sculp. et excud., M. de Vos figuravit". Hollstein xxi 305; CPM, vol 47, p.118. Jessie Ann Owens, Composers at Work (1997), pp. 48-49, points out that it was usual practice for organists to play from scores notated in choirbook format.
[Antwerp] Johann Sadeler, [1590]
€ 1.300,00
