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of King Christian IV of Denmark. 41 Harmonia celeste (1583), Symphonia Angelica
(1585), Musica divina (1588), and Melodia olympica (1591) appear in the inventory
from 1620–1625 of the music library of the protestant Kantorei St. Anna in Augsburg. 42
And Melodia olympica was registered in the 1613 inventory of music at the court
of Landgrave Moritz of Kassel, whose extensive library included volumes of
madrigals by Orazio Vecchi, Hans Leo Hassler, Alessandro Striggio, and Benedetto
Pallavicino. 43
How did Phalèse reach this extended market? The most effective method for
distributing the ‘Antwerp anthologies’ was through other bookdealers, who served
as intermediaries in the transfer of music books from producers to consumers. The
anthologies appear regularly in printed stock catalogues of regional publishers,
notably those of Cornelis Claesz in the Northern Netherlands and Balthasar Bellère
in Douai, in the Southern Netherlands. 44 For publishers from German-speaking lands,
the semiannual bookfairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig were the most important venues
for the exchange of printed books of all kinds. 45 All four anthologies are found in the
Frankfurt bookfair catalogues compiled by the Augsburg printer-publisher Georg
Willer; they also frequently appear in related bookfair catalogues by Lutz, Portenbach,
Lamberg, the Katholischer Katalog, and the Frankfurter öffentlicher Katalog. 46
41 On the Danish court collections, see H. SCHWAB, Italianità in Danimarca: Zur Rezeption des Madrigals
am Hofe Christian IV, in R. BOHN ed., Europa in Scandinavia: Kulturelle und soziale Dialoge
in der frühen Neuzeit, Frankfurt, 1995, pp. 142–145.
42 The music library was under the direction Adam Gumpelzhaimer. See R. SCHAAL, Das Inventar der
Kantorei St. Anna in Augsburg. Ein Beitrag zur protestantischen Musikpflege im 16. und beginnenden
17. Jahrhundert, (Catalogus Musicus, 3), Kassel, 1965.
43 Folio 5r of the Inventarium aller Musicalischen bücher am 14 ten Februarij ao. 1613 (Hessisches Staatsarchiv
Marburg, Signatur 4b–46a, nr. 3), transcribed in E. ZULAUF, Beiträge zur Geschichte der
Landgräflich-Hessischen Hofkapelle zu Cassel bis auf die Zeit Moritz des Gelehrten, in Zeitschrift des
Vereins für hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde, new series 26 (1903), p. 107. No date for Melodia
olympica is indicated in the inventory. On individual owners of the ‘Antwerp anthologies,’ see also
note 2 above.
44 H. VANHULST, La musique dans le Catalogue des livres françois de Cornelis Claesz (Amsterdam,
1609), in Revue Belge de Musicologie, 44 (1990), pp. 57–77; B. VAN SELM, Een menighte treffelijcke
boecken: Nederlandse boekhandelscatalogi in het begin van de zeventiende eeuw, Utrecht, 1987,
pp. 176–179; A. LABARRE, Les catalogues de Balthasar Bellère à Douai, 1598–1636, in Gutenberg-
Jahrbuch, 55 (1980), pp. 150–154; and H. VANHULST, Balthasar Bellère, marchand de musique à
Douai (1603–1636), in Revue de musicologie, 85 (1999), pp. 227–263. See also the auction catalogue
printed upon the death of Leiden musician Cornelis Schuyt: R. RASCH and T. WIND, The Music
Library of Cornelis Schuyt, in A. CLEMENT and E. JAS eds., From Ciconia to Sweelinck: Donum
natalicium Willem Elders, (Chloe: Beihefte zum Daphnis, 21), Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 327–353.
45 For a description, see J. WESTFALLTHOMPSON ed., The Frankfort Book Fair: The Francofordiense
Emporium of Henri Estienne, Chicago, 1911, repr. New York, 1968.
46 A. GÖHLER, Verzeichnis der in den Frankfurter und Leipziger Messkatalogen der Jahre 1564 bis
1759 angezeigten Musikalien, Hilversum, 1965, pp. 35, 48. For a facsimile of the Willer catalogues,
see B. FABIAN ed., Die Messkataloge des sechszehnten Jahrhunderts, 1–5, Hildesheim – New York,
1972–.