Über die Vorzüge der Musik. Eine Rede im Concert zum Besten der Armen zu Zeiz [sic] den 22 October 1792. gehalten von D. Johann Carl Henrich Ackermann.

Leipzig: In Commission bey Adam Friedrich Boehme. [1792]. First Edition. Small octavo (8 x 4.5 inches; 204 x 114mm.). vi, 7-27, [5, blank] pages (A-B8). Contemporary green paper-covered blue paper wrappers. Wrappers curled a little at the edges, with a few tiny chips. Paper slightly browned; some foxing, heavier in places in the lower margin; few scattered rust spots. A very good copy of this delicate pamphlet. Small bookseller's ticket of music antiquarian Hermann Baron on front pastedown: "H. Baron / Music and Books, / 136 Chatsworth Road, / London, N. W. 2., England."

On 22 October 1792, German Doctor Johann Carl Heinrich Ackermann gave a speech at a concert to benefit the poor in his native city of Zeitz on the powerful effect that music has, above all other fine arts, on health and well-being. Eitner I, page 36. (11898)

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