Smashing stuff
21st February 2012
The Oxford Companion to German Literature describes Christian Ludwig Liscow (1701–1760) as ‘a lively and reckless satirist’. This is surely one of his best books, a wonderful attack on Heinrich Jakob Sivers, ‘a bigoted publicity-seeking scrawler’ as the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie calls him, who reported having discovered a ‘musical stone’ (i.e. with musical notation on […]
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