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Lorbeerkranz und Dornenkrone : Eine Erzählung aus Beethovens Tagen von (P[aul]) Oskar Höcker. Mit zahlreichen Textillustrationen und 1 Titelbild

Höcker, Paul Oskar · 1894 · Verlag von Herm. J. Meidinger · 13 pictures

Lorbeerkranz und Dornenkrone is an 1894 German novel by Paul Oskar Höcker, published in Berlin by Verlag von Herm. J. Meidinger, telling a fictional story from Beethoven's life for a general German reading public. Its wood-engraved pictures show period interiors with powdered-wig gentlemen, a bewigged musician at a keyboard, a boy in a doorway, and a formal portrait medallion of Mozart framed by putti, offering a designer models for historical costume, parlour scenes and ornate frame ornament.

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