Gesammelte Neben-Arbeit in gebundenen Reden - Uffenbach, Johann Friedrich Armand von 1687-1769; Merian, Matthaeus 1621-1681 (Hamburg König und Richter, 1733)
The last section, entitled 'Sing-Gedichte' is dedicated to the “edle Musik” and contains cantata texts based on existing melodies from opera arias by Handel, Telemann, Graun, Graupner, and Hasse, on sonata movements by Johann Christoph Pepusch, and tle libretti by Uffenbach for 2 Sinspiele ('Pisitatratus' and 'Hass und Neid')
von Uffenbach was a German architect, lawyer and scholar, as well as collector and patron of the arts, a librettist and music lover (he played the lute as well). Born into a wealthy bourgeois family in Frankfurt, he held high office in the city administration, was a member of the city council and in 1762 became mayor of Frankfurt.
Cebes of Thebes (ca. 430-350 B.C.E.) was a member of Socrates’ inner circle. One of the dialogs that has been attributed to him is the Pinax or Tabula, also known as the Tablet of Cebes. Uffenbach's book contains a magnificent folded engraving of the tablet by Matthaeus Merian: "Tabvla Cebetis Continens Totius Hvmanæ Descriptionem", an allegorical picture on which the whole of human life with its dangers and temptations was symbolically represented.
Contains index
Ex libris Bibliotheca Acad. Georgiae Augustae (Stamp)
Worinnen, nebst einer poetischen Auslegung des Sinnebildes Cebetis des Thebaners, verschiedene moralische Schrifften zu Ausbesserung menschlicher Sitten enthalten, und nebst einer Vorrede von der Würde derer Singe-Gedichte, Mit dessen Genehmhaltung an das Licht gestellet.
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