Kirnberger's most puzzling canon
The title page of the first volume of Johann Philipp Kirnberger's treatise "Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik" (1774) bears a humorously notated puzzle canon packed with subtleties and esoteric knowledge, but its solution nonetheless produces a pleasant enough result. The canon appears just below the dedication to Kirnberger's princess student, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723-1787). The text "Wir irren allesamt nur jeder irret anderst," a quotation of Georg Christoph Lichtenber
The title page of the first volume of Johann Philipp Kirnberger's treatise "Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik" (1774) bears a humorously notated puzzle canon packed with subtleties and esoteric knowledge, but its solution nonetheless produces a pleasant enough result. The canon appears just below the dedication to Kirnberger's princess student, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723-1787). The text "Wir irren allesamt nur jeder irret anderst," a quotation of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (Göttinger Taschenbuch 5), perhaps means, "We all make mistakes, only some make them…
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