Musen Almanach a MDCCLXXXV - Bürger, Gottfried August 1747-1794 (Göttingen Dietrich, 1785)
Modeled after the French 'Almanach des Muses' (see 09A29, 11A07 and 1B19), the 'Musen-Almanach' was founded in Göttingen in 1770. Johann Heinrich Voß (1751-1826) became its editor in 1774, but in 1775 founded his own almanac in Hamburg (see 06K11-14, H2-134, X3D13). In 1778 Bürger became editor of the Musenalmanach, a position he retained until his death. Another competing almanac was founded by Schiller (see H3-011 & X1B18)
Beautiful cover, depicting flowers on a pedestal, colored; Title page engraving by Christian Gottlieb Geyser (1742-1803); Frontispiece engraving titled 'Einfassung zu einer beliebigen Silhouette' by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1762-1840)
3 folded pages, score for two songs by Stegmann ('Lied zur Weinlese' and 'Das Lied der Trennung') and one song by Fr. W. Weiss ('Lied vom Liedchen an die Liebe')
includes Index of authors
Colored cloth cover with marbled end papers and gilt edges
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Poetry; Almanac; Song; Germany; alchemie; crescendo; dwarsfluit; lamento