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SKU: BR.BV-295 Faksimile der Ausgabe Berlin 1757. Composed by Johann Friedrich Agricola and Pier Francesco Tosi. Edited by Kurt Wichmann. Softbound. Buchverlag Breitkopf & Hartel (Music Books). What Quantz did for the flute, C. P. E. Bach for the clavier, and Leopold Mozart for the violin, Tosi did for the voice with his comprehensive vocal method. Music pedagogy; Baroque. Book. 328 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #BV 295. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.BV-295). ISBN 9783765102950. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.The Bach pupil Agricola - who became Kapellmeister at the court of King Frederick the Great after Graun's death competently translated the work, adapted it to the vocal performance practice of the time, and furnished it with additional material to satisfy the taste prevalent in Germany back then. Tosi/Agricola's Anleitung "is still regarded as the best book on the subject, in German, as the original in Italian", wrote the widely traveled Charles Burney in 1789.